13 January

Born on this day

1932 Barry Chapman Bishop, American pioneer, who ascended Everest in 1963. He died in 1994, aged 62.
1950 Toyofumi Miyazaki, Japanese climber, who ascended Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 1992.
1953 Charles Arthur, British climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1997.
1960 Jürgen Hadel, German climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2001.
1963 Henry Voigt, German climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2000.
1966 Iwona Zadarnowska-Wingert, Polish lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2014.
1967 Kim Joo-Hyung, Korean climber, who ascended Nanga Parbat in 1997, K2 in 2000 and Shisha Pangma in 2001.
1970 Kenta Hirose, Japanese climber, who ascended Kangchenjunga in 1998 and Lhotse and Everest in 2003.
1970 Jason van Dalen, American climber, who ascended Everest in 2010.
1970 Cosima Eggenberger-Huspenina, Austrian lady climber, who ascended Lhotse in 2022 and Cho Oyu in 2025.
1971 Airat Yunusov, Russian climber, who ascended Everest in 2018.
1973 Amy Jayne Beeton, British lady climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2006 and Everest in 2007.
1975 Yannick Claude Sylvain Gagneret, French climber, who ascended Lhotse and Manaslu in 2013. He died on Makalu in 2014, aged 39.
1975 Tomasz ("Czapkins") Mackiewicz, Polish climber, who ascended Nanga Parbat in winter 2018 and went missing on descent, aged 43.
1976 Abhijeet Singh, Indian climber, who ascended Everest in 2003.
1976 Alvar Carlos Puente, Argentinean climber, who ascended Everest in 2010.
1976 Sumit Joshi, Nepalese/Australian climber, who ascended Everest in 2010.
1978 Sun Bin, Chinese climber, who ascended Everest twice (2007 and 2017).
1982 Mehul Pravinchandra Joshi, Indian climber, who ascended Everest in 2018.
1982 Steffen Buck, German climber, who ascended Manaslu M in 2025.
1984 Karsang (Gesang) 2, Tibetan climber, who ascended Cho Oyu five times (2006, 2007, 2008, 2013 and 2016) and Everest seven times (2009, 2011, 2012. 2013, 2014, 2016 and 2017).
1984 Matthew Benson Chessor, Australian climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2014.
1984 Bishnu Bahadur Rana, Nepalese climber, who ascended Everest in 2016.
1985 Hirotaka Toyohara, Japanese climber, who ascended Everest and Lhotse in 2018.
1986 Werner Ebner, German climber, who ascended Manaslu M in 2024.
1988 Thomas Myles Carlton Heal, British climber, who ascended Everest in 2019.
1989 Ngima Phinju, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest twice (2023 and 2024).
1995 Natalia Beliankina, Russian lady climber, who ascended Manaslu M in 2025.
1997 Nurbu (c), Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2019.
1997 Anvitha Reddy Padamati, Indian lady climber, who ascended Everest and Manaslu M in 2022.
1997 Kishor Jabegu, Nepalese climber, who ascended Everest in 2023.
1997 Wang Dake, Chinese climber, who ascended Manaslu M in 2024.
2006 Brian Steve Wegner, German climber, who ascended Manaslu M in 2025.

First ascent on this day

1974 First undisputed ascent of Cerro Torre by an Italian party.

Gone on this day

2004 Arne Naess jr., Norwegian climber, who ascended Everest in 1985 and finished the Carstensz-version of the Seven Summits in 1994. He died in 2004 in a climbing accident in South Africa, aged 66. He was the nephew of the pioneer and philosopher Arne Naess sr., who led the expedition, which achieved the first ascent of Tirich Mir (7708 m) in 1950.
2007 Luis María Pikabea and Xabier Zubieta, Spanish Basque climbers, who ascended Gasherbrum II in 1999, died on Taillon, both aged 33.