23 November

Born on this day

1938 Kaneshige Ikeda, Japanese adventurer and climber, who travelled to the North Pole in 1978 and ascended Cho Oyu in 1991 and Dhaulagiri I in 1994.
1946 Jean Ellis, American climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1996.
1947 Lawrence Darius (Larry) Nielson, American climber, who ascended Everest in 1983 and Kangchenjunga in 1989.
1947 Oswald Gassler, Austrian climber, who ascended Shisha Pangma in 1985, Cho Oyu in 1987 and Nanga Parbat in 1988. He died in 1989 in the Alps, aged 41.
1948 Yoneyoshi Ohta, Japanese climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2012.
1949 Hideo Sato, Japanese climber, who ascended Gasherbrum II in 1980.
1949 Adolf Georg Fischer, German climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2002.
1950 Daniel George Griffith, Canadian climber, who ascended Everest in 2006. Later that year he also finished the Carstensz- and Kosciuszko-versions of the Seven Summits.
1952 Marek Danielak, Polish climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1986. He died in 1988 on Alto Ritacuba, aged 35.
1954 John Dowd, Irish climber, who ascended Broad Peak in 2006 and Everest in 2008.
1957 Vasily Shakhnovsky, Russian climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2017 and Everest in 2018.
1959 Piotr Konopka, Polish climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1986.
1961 Gerold Ennemoser, Austrian climber, who ascended Dhaulagiri I in 1995 and Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 1996.
1961 Franz Josef Haberl, Austrian climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2011.
1961 Lillian Cuthbert, American lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2018.
1963 Jin Fei-Bao, Chinese climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2005, Everest in 2006 and Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 2008. He also finished the Carstensz- and Kosciuszko-versions of the Seven Summits in 2007.
1965 Alec Turner, American climber, who ascended Everest in 2009.
1965 Jefferson Dove (Jeff) Reynolds, American climber, who ascended Everest in 2012.
1966 Palden (a), Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2006.
1967 Rudi Anna R. Bollaert, Belgian climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2019 and Kangchenjunga in 2022.
1969 Marko Čar, Slovenian climber, who ascended Gasherbrum I in 1995 (where he descended on snowboard) and Gyachung Kang in 1999. He died in the Slovenian Alps in 2000, aged 30.
1969 Catherine (Kit) DesLauriers, American lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2006, where she also finished the Kosciuszko-version of the Seven Summits.
1969 Park Chang-Soo, Korean climber, who ascended Annapurna I in 1999.
1971 Koshiro Yamada, Japanese climber, who ascended Everest in 2006.
1973 Georgios (George) Andreou, Cypriot climber, who ascended Everest in 2012.
1974 Paul Heinrich Liebenberg, South African climber, who ascended Cho Oyu and Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 2011.
1977 Danurbu, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest in 2019.
1979 Oriol Baró, Spanish Catalan climber, who ascended Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 2004.
1985 Sonam Tshering VI, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest in 2022.
1987 Mingma Thinduk III, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Annapurna I in 2019, Everest five times (in 2021 twice and in 2022, 2023 and 2024) and Manaslu M in 2023.
1988 Myrza Fasha Mohamad Hamyrudin, Malaysian lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2013.
1988 Sandeep Singh, Indian climber, who ascended Everest in 2017.
1992 Ngawang Tenjing, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2018.
1995 Ming Dawa, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest twice (2022 and 2024).
1998 Ming Temba IV (aka Mingma Temba), Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Makalu in 2019 and Everest three times (2022, 2023 and 2024).
1999 Nurbu (b), Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2019.
2004 Mingma Nuru XI, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest in 2022.