08 October

Born on this day

1932 Günter Kämpfe, German climber, who ascended Everest in 1979.
1946 Wiesław Klaput, Polish climber, who participated in the first ascent of Kangbachen (7903 m, subsidiary peak of Kangchenjunga) in 1974.
1951 Miquel Ángel Martínez, Spanish Catalan climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1990.
1956 Shinji Kobayashi, Japanese climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1987.
1958 Monica Verge, Spanish Catalan lady climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1989.
1961 Alan Silva, Australian climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1997 and Everest in 1998.
1965 Jörg Breuer, German climber, who ascended Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 2006.
1966 Roman Lebek, German climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1998.
1967 Roman Dobrajc, Slovenian climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2003.
1968 Takeshi Akiyama, Japanese climber, who ascended Nanga Parbat in 1995.
1968 Hamish Walton, climber from New Zealand, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2008.
1969 Javier Huarte, Spanish Basque climber, who ascended Gasherbrum I in 2004 and Nanga Parbat in 2005.
1969 Anita Ugyan, Hungarian lady climber, who ascended Gasherbrum II in 2003, Gasherbrum I and Broad Peak in 2007 and Everest twice (2009 and 2010).
1969 Rodrigo Vivanco, Chilean climber, who ascended Broad Peak Foresummit in 1999, Dhaulagiri I in 2017 and Kangchenjunga in 2019, where he died on descent, aged 49.
1970 Karma Gyalzen I (Karma Gelje), Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest twice (2005 and 2016).
1970 Daniil Briman, Russian climber, who ascended Everest in 2017 and K2 in 2023.
1972 Jang Kum-Duk, Korean climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1997.
1972 Subhas Paul, Indian climber, who ascended Everest in 2016.
1972 Priit Joosu, Estonian climber, who ascended Gasherbrum II in 2022.
1973 Rajib Bhattacharya, Indian climber, who ascended Everest in 2011, Lhotse in 2012 and Kangchenjunga in 2014.
1974 Stefano Dotti, Italian climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1998.
1975 Harald Alexander Grossauer, Austrian climber, who ascended Everest in 2018.
1979 Arjun Karki, Nepalese climber, who ascended Everest in 2013.
1980 Wang Jie-Liang, Chinese climber, who ascended Manaslu M in 2024 and Everest in 2025.
1980 Zhou Ze, Chinese climber, who ascended Manaslu M in 2024.
1983 Liu Lei, Chinese climber, who ascended Everest in 2016.
1983 Zhang Lidan, Chinese lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2019.
1985 Shivaji Laxman Nanware, Indian climber, who ascended Everest in 2023, Makalu and Manaslu M in 2024, Lhotse in 2025 and Dhaulagiri I in 2026.
1988 Lakpa Temba I, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest seven times (2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024), Manaslu RP in 2022, Manaslu M in 2023 and Cho Oyu in 2024.
1991 Prakash Raj Pandey, Nepalese climber, who ascended Everest in 2018 and Manaslu RP in 2019.
1991 Didrik Bakke Dukefoss, Norwegian climber, who ascended Everest in 2019.
1992 Kipa II, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest three times (2016, 2021 and 2022) and Lhotse in 2018.
1992 Chen Ping-Ping, Chinese lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2026.
1997 Chenga, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest twice (2024 and 2026).

First ascents on this day

1970 Mana Parvat I (6794 m) by an Indian party.
2000 Targo Gangri I (6610 m) by a British party.

Gone on this day

1983 Hironobu Kamuro, Japanese climber, who ascended Dhaulagiri I in 1981, K2 in 1982 and Everest in 1983, where he died by a fall on descent, aged 31. His companion Hiroshi Yoshino, aged 33, who ascended Dhaulagiri I in 1978, K2 in 1982 and Everest on this day as well, died also by a fall on descent the next morning.
1991 Takumi Ishizaka, Japanese climber, who ascended Makalu the day before, died on descent, aged 26.
1997 Juraj Kardhordo, Slovak climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1995 and Gasherbrums I and II in summer 1997, disappeared on Manaslu, aged 31.