17 October

Born on this day

1949 Kamil Karafa, Czech climber, who ascended Nanda Devi in 1981.
1951 Masamiki Takine, Japanese climber, who ascended K2 in 1997 and Cho Oyu in 2001.
1954 Maciej Berbeka, Polish climber, who ascended Annapurna Central-Peak by the difficult South Face in 1981, Manaslu M in winter 1984, Cho Oyu in winter 1985, Broad Peak Foresummit in winter 1988, Everest in 1993 and Broad Peak in winter 2013, where he died on descent, aged 58.
1954 Carlos P. Buhler, American climber, who ascended Everest in 1983, Kangchenjunga in 1988, Cho Oyu in 1989, Dhaulagiri I in 1990, K2 in 1996 and Nanga Parbat in 1997.
1961 Toshihide Haruki, Japanese climber, who ascended Lhotse in 1986.
1964 Hiroko Tsuchiya, Japanese climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2007.
1965 Hannes Rieser, Austrian free-climber.
1965 Nima Tshering III, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest in 2010 and Shisha Pangma Central-Peak and Cho Oyu in 2012.
1966 Andreas Ratka, German climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1994.
1967 Berenguer Sabadell, Spanish Catalan climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1993.
1967 Wang Qiu-Yang, Chinese lady climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2006 and Everest in 2007.
1968 Julia Christine McKelvey, American lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2023.
1969 Ma Li-Yamu, Chinese lady climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2014 and Everest twice (2016 - disputed - and 2019).
1970 Sean Joseph David James, British climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2014, Everest three times (2017, 2019 and 2022) and Gasherbrum II in 2019.
1971 Olivier Coudurier, French climber, who ascended Makalu in 2008.
1974 Pema Dorje II, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest in 2009.
1978 Ng Chun-Ting (Elton), Chinese climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2016 and Everest in 2017.
1978 Hang Xing, Chinese climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2017.
1979 Shinosuke Tokuda, Japanese climber, who ascended Everest and Lhotse in 2013.
1980 Shi Lei, Chinese climber, who ascended Everest twice (2017 and 2023) and Manaslu M in 2022.
1981 Edward William Nugent IV, American climber, who ascended Everest twice (2016 and 2017).
1985 Sagar Sanjay Palkar, Indian climber, who ascended Everest in 2012.
1986 Ghanim Saeed Juma Mubarak Aldurs, climber from the United Arab Emirates, who ascended Everest in 2016.
1986 Liu Li-Li, Chinese lady climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2019.
1993 Raja Sekar Pachai, Indian climber, who ascended Everest in 2023.
1996 Sujun/Sujan Gurung, Nepalese climber, who ascended Manaslu RP twice (2019 and 2021) and Everest twice (2022 and 2024).
1997 Namgel Dorje Tamang, Nepalese climber, who ascended Everest six times (2016, 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023 and 2024), Lhotse twice (2019 and 2024), Manaslu RP 2021 and Manaslu M twice (2023 and 2024).
2000 Lhakpa Sonam III, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest three times (2022, 2023 and 2024).

First ascents on this day

1972 Panch Chuli "I" (6355 m) by an Indian party. This peak is only a subsidiary peak of Panch Chuli "II" (6904 m). A renaming of the two peaks would be useful to Panch Chuli I and Panch Chuli I NW-Peak.
1986 Tripura Hiunchuli (aka "Hanging Glacier Peak", 6526 m) by a Japanese party.
2008 Kang Nachugo (6737 m) by an American party.
2016 "Nangyama Ri II" (6209 m) by a Japanese party.
2017 Pratibandhit Lek (6129 m) by a German party.

Gone on this day

1978 Alison Chadwick (36) British lady climber, who participated in the first ascent of Gasherbrum III in 1975 and was married to Janusz Onyszkiewicz from Poland, and American lady climber Vera Watson (46), died on Annapurna I.
1982 Alex MacIntyre, British climber, who ascended Dhaulagiri I in 1980 and Shisha Pangma in spring 1982, died after being struck by a solitary stone following a fine attempt on Annapurna I South Face, aged 28.
1986 Dawa Norbu, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Kangchenjunga in 1980, Lhotse in 1983 and Everest in 1985, died in an avalanche on Everest, aged 29.
1988 Four Slovak climbers went missing on Everest. One of them, Jozef Just (33), ascended Lhotse just nineteen days earlier and was on descent from the top. His three companions were Peter Božík (34), who ascended Lhotse Shar in 1984 and K2 in 1986, Dušan Becík (34), who ascended Cho Oyu in 1985 and Lhotse nineteen days earlier as well and Jaroslav Jaško (26).
1988 Ramiro Navarrete, Ecuadorian climber, who ascended Shisha Pangma in 1987 and Annapurna I East-Peak the day before, where he died on descent, aged 38.
1989 Sungdare, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest five times (1979, 1981, 1982, 1985 and 1988), Dhaulagiri I in 1987 and Cho Oyu in 1988, died, aged 34.