29 June

Born on this day

1949 Kazushi Katahira, Japanese climber, who ascended Kumbhakarna (aka Jannu, 7711 m) in 1976.
1951 Josef Streif, German climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1999 and Everest in 2001.
1961 Mikhail Turovski, Russian climber, who ascended Everest in 2010.
1961 Franck Jean Abel Tessier, French climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2018 and Everest in 2021.
1965 Yelena Ovtchinikova, Russian lady free-climber.
1965 Dimitri Igor Serge Kijek, French climber, who ascended Manaslu M in 2025.
1966 Kami III, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest four times (2005, 2006, 2011 and 2019), Cho Oyu in 2006, Makalu twice (2008 and 2022), Manaslu RP in 2009 and Shisha Pangma in 2010.
1969 Ang Demba, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Manaslu RP twice (2014 and 2017) and Makalu in 2023.
1969 Tong Jun, Chinese climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2018.
1969 Narayanan Iyer, Indian climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2021.
1972 Štěpán Bečvář, Czech climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2011.
1975 Fan Qian, Chinese climber, who ascended Everest in 2023.
1976 Mathias Marklund, Swedish climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2005.
1978 Ong Dorchi, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2018, Makalu in 2019 and Dhaulagiri I and Kangchenjunga in 2025.
1980 Mingma Dukpa, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest three times (2007, 2008 and 2009), Cho Oyu in 2007, Lhotse in 2013, Makalu in 2014 and Manaslu RP twice (2017 and 2019).
1981 Cheng Wei, Chinese climber, who ascended Everest in 2017.
1982 Szilárd Suhajda, Hungarian climber, who ascended Broad Peak in 2014, K2 in 2019 and Lhotse in 2022. He died on Everest in 2023, aged 40.
1983 Nima Karma, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest six times (2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2013) and Cho Oyu twice (2013 and 2014).
1983 Bishnu Gurung, Nepalese climber, who ascended Everest in 2019.
1985 Pemba Chongbi, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest twice (2011 and 2013).
1985 Sean Paul Mooney, Canadian climber, who ascended Everest in 2013.
1985 Pemba VI, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest three times (2016, 2018 and 2019) and Lhotse in 2017.
1986 Dorchi VI, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest five times (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025).
1988 Ramesh Gurung, Nepalese climber, who ascended Manaslu RP twice (2017 and 2021), Everest twice (2018 and 2026), Dhaulagiri I in 2019, Lhotse and K2 in 2022, Broad Peak twice (2022 and 2023), Nanga Parbat, Gasherbrum II and Gasherbrum I in 2023 and Manaslu M in 2025.
1989 Ang Nuru II, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest and Manaslu RP in 2011.
1989 Gautam Shine, Indian climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2019 and Everest and Lhotse in 2022.
1989 Narayanan Iyer, Indian climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2021.
1989 Allen Shiping Yin, American climber, who ascended Manaslu M in 2024 and Everest in 2025.
1992 Dayisi, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest in 2019.
1992 Mingma Dorchi III, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest four times (2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026) and Manaslu M twice (2023 and 2025).
1992 Lukáš Jasenský, Czech climber, who ascended Makalu in 2023.
1995 Dafuri I, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest twice (2017 and 2018).
1995 Prakriti Varshney, Indian lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2022, Makalu in 2023 and Lhotse in 2025.
1998 Lakpa Sen, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest in 2024.
1999 Pasang Kanchi, Nepalese Sherpani, who ascended Everest in 2021 and Lhotse in 2022.
2007 Lakpa Sange (a), Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Annapurna I in 2026.

First ascents on this day

1933 Lixin Ri III (6700 m) by a British party.
1964 Momhil Sar (7342 m) by an Austrian party.
1967 Istor-o-nal North (7373 m) by another Austrian party.

Gone on this day

1959 Two of the five following climbers were last seen high on Batura Sar (7795 m). All disappeared probably in an avalanche: Keith Wartburton, Richard Knight and Harry Stephenson (all UK) and Germans Martin Günnel and Albert Hirschbichler.
1970 Günther Messner, Italian (South Tyrolean) climber, who ascended Nanga Parbat, died on descent, aged 24.
2018 Christian Huber, Austrian climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2012. He died in an avalanche on Ultar Sar, aged 55.