18 August

Born on this day

1931 Virginio Epis, Italian climber, who ascended Everest in 1973.
1935 Irene Miller, American lady climber, who ascended Annapurna I in 1978.
1935 Tommy Sandberg, Swedish climber, who ascended Gasherbrum II in 1985.
1951 Kazuhisa Noro, Japanese climber, who ascended Broad Peak in 1977.
1952 Lynn Prebble, American lady climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2001.
1954 Pedro Expósito, Spanish climber, who ascended Nanga Parbat in 1987, Shisha Pangma in 1990 and Cho Oyu in 2001. He also skied to the South Pole in the season 1994/1995.
1958 Kim Deok-Jin, Korean climber, who ascended Manaslu M in 2024.
1965 James Winfield Lumberg, American climber, who ascended Everest in 2016.
1966 Karin Katstaller, Austrian lady climber, who ascended Makalu in 2001.
1970 Eduard Dorfner, Austrian climber, who ascended Gasherbrum II in 2006.
1971 Sylvain St. Germain, Canadian climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2014 and Lhotse in 2018.
1972 Joachim Moritz, Austrian climber, who ascended Gasherbrum II in 2006.
1973 Polly Murray, British (Scottish) lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2000.
1973 Nuru Gyalzen I, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest six times (2004, twice in 2007, 2009, 2012 and 2013), Manaslu RP three times (2009, 2010 and 2017) and Cho Oyu in 2016.
1974 Wu Xiao-Jun, Chinese climber, who ascended Everest in 2018.
1976 Andrea Ursina Zimmermann, Swiss lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2016.
1977 Jeremias Francisco Arredondo, Guatemalan climber, who ascended Everest in 2008.
1977 Nuru Wangchu, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest thirteen times (2000, 2002, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2025), Cho Oyu four times (2005, 2006, 2009 and 2014), Manaslu RP twice (2011 and 2019) and Makalu in 2022.
1980 Nirupama Pandey, Indian lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2011.
1981 Ang Tashi I, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Kamet in 2003 and Everest in 2004.
1981 Hu Jie, Chinese climber, who ascended K2 in 2024.
1983 John Robert (Andy) Anderson, American climber, who ascended Everest in 2017.
1983 Shankar Nath Goswami, Indian climber, who ascended Everest in 2025.
1985 Ang Dorje V, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest three times (2017, 2018 and 2019).
1986 Scot Thomas Parsley, American climber, who ascended Everest in 2024.
1986 Christopher and Graham Parrott, American twin climbers, who ascended Everest in 2024.
1987 Mingma Dorchi I, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest seven times (2011, 2013, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2023 and 2024), Manaslu RP four times (2011, 2018, 2019 and 2021), Makalu four times (2012, 2017, 2019 and 2022), Lhotse four times (2012, 2018, 2019 and 2021), K2 five times (2012, 2014, 2021, 2022 and 2023), Dhaulagiri I (WRFS) twice (2014 and 2017), Gasherbrum I and Broad Peak in 2019, Annapurna I twice (2021 and 2024), Kangchenjunga in 2022 and Manaslu M twice (2023 and 2024).
1988 Pankaj Joshi, Indian climber, who ascended Kangchenjunga in 2018.
1988 Mingmar Tamang I, Nepalese climber, who ascended Everest six times (2018, 2019, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025) and Lhotse in 2024.
1990 Cesalina Gracie De Angelis, Brazilian lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2023.
1995 Chhiring VI, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest in 2025.
1998 Tenzing Jangbu, American/Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest in 2022 and Lhotse in 2023.
1999 Lakpa (g), Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Makalu in 2023.

First ascents on this day

1939 Ghori Parbat (6708 m) by a Swiss party.
1971 Kohe Shan (6920 m) by an Italian party.
1974 Kohane Sarqi (6305 m) by a Polish party.
1977 Phuparash II (6785 m) by a British party.
1985 Kizil Asker (5842 m) by a Soviet party.
1988 Syn Qing Feng XVIII (6237 m) by a Japanese party.
1990 Mush Muztagh (6638 m, earlier believed to be 7282 m) by another Japanese party.
1992 Saraswati Parbat I (6940 m) by an Indian party.
1995 Mana II (7092 m) by an Indo-Japanese party.

Gone on this day

1983 Georges Bettembourg, French climber, who ascended Nuptse in 1979, died on Aiguille Verte, aged 32.
1987 Erwin Schneider, Austrian pioneer and geographer, died, aged 81.
2005 Svetlana Baskakova, lady climber from Uzbekistan, who ascended Everest in 1998. She died on Jengish Chokusu (earlier Pik Pobedy, Chinese: Tomur Feng, 7439 m), aged 49.