16 May

Born on this day

1950 Arnold Würsch, Swiss climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1993.
1955 Josef Koller, Austrian climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1999.
1957 Jefferey (Jeff) Jackson, American climber, who ascended Ngozumpa Kang I in 1984.
1957 Rudolf Riedl, Austrian climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2015.
1959 Jürgen Greher, German climber, who ascended Nanga Parbat in 2008, Dhaulagiri I in 2009 and Gasherbrum II in 2013.
1964 Akira Hayashimoto, Japanese climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1992.
1966 Ellen Marie Gallant, American lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2017.
1968 Pavlos Tsiantos, Greek climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2003 and Everest in 2004.
1972 Wioletta Ewa Gutfrańska, Polish lady climber, who ascended Manaslu M in 2025.
1973 Anna Elżbieta Lichota, Polish lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2010, Lhotse in 2012 and Manaslu RP in 2014. She also finished the Carstensz-version of the Seven Summits in 2010.
1975 Zi Xin-Sheng, Chinese climber, who ascended Everest in 2018.
1980 Phu Nuru I (Phunuru), Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Cho Oyu twelve times (twice in 2000, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2018 and 2019), Everest eight times (2003, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2012, 2021, 2022 and 2023), Lhotse twice (2018 and 2024), Manaslu RP in 2021 and Manaslu M twice (2023 and 2024).
1984 Kami (c), Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Manaslu M in 2025.
1986 Kusang Tenzing, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest ten times (2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019), Manaslu RP three times (2009, 2017 and 2019), Cho Oyu four times (2011, twice in 2013 and in 2014) and Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 2013.
1987 Dawa Jangbu Lama, Nepalese climber, who ascended Cho Oyu and Manaslu RP in 2014, Everest eight times (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025), K2 in 2022 and Manaslu M three times (2023, 2024 and 2025).
1988 Luka Lindič, Slovenian climber, who ascended Broad Peak and Gasherbrum IV NE-Peak in 2016.
1989 Mingma Gyabu ("David"), Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest nine times (2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2017, 2018, 2021, 2022 and 2025), Cho Oyu in 2011, the lower summit ridge of Manaslu in 2012, Makalu in 2014, K2 six times (2014, 2018, winter 2021, in 2022 twice and in 2023), Manaslu RP three times (2015, 2018 and 2019), Lhotse in 2018, Annapurna I, Dhaulagiri I (WRFS), Kangchenjunga, Nanga Parbat, Gasherbrum I, Gasherbrum II, Broad Peak and Shisha Pangma in 2019 and Manaslu M in 2021.

Event on this day

1975 Japanese lady climber Junko Tabei is the first woman, who ascended Everest.

First ascents on this day

1952 Jobo Rabzang (6587 m) by a party from New Zealand, led by Edmund Hillary.
1961 Nuptse (7864 m) by a British party.
1961 Palta Thumba (6126 m, subsidiary peak of Jagdula Lekh, 6158 m) by a British party as well.
1980 Yebokangjial Ri II (7068 m) by a German party.
1984 Chamlang East (7287 m) again by a British party.

Gone on this day

1979 Ang Phu, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest in 1978 and for the second time the day before, died on descent, aged 28.
1980 Johann Willenpart, Austrian pioneer, who participated in the first ascent of Gasherbrum II in 1956, died, aged 52.
1989 Phu Dorje II, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest in 1988 and for the second time on this day, died on descent, aged 26.
1994 Tobias Heymann, German climber, who ascended Broad Peak in 1993, died on Dammastock in the Alps.
1998 Kenzo Akasaka (30) and Atsushi Shiina (27), Japanese climbers, who both ascended K2 in 1996 and Kangchenjunga in 1998, died on descent of the latter by exhaustion.
2000 Bernd Mehnert, German climber, who ascended Makalu the day before, died on descent, aged 33.
2006 Tomas Olsson, Swedish climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2004 and Everest in 2006, where he died on descent, aged 30.
2007 Yasuhiko Mochizuki, Japanese climber, who ascended Nanga Parbat in 1993 and K2 in 2004, died on Everest, aged 47.
2007 Lee Hyun-Jo, Korean climber, who ascended Makalu, Broad Peak and Shisha Pangma in 2000, Nanga Parbat in 2005 and Everest in 2006, died in an avalanche on Everest, aged 34.
2007 Oh Hee-Jun, Korean climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1999, Broad Peak and Shisha Pangma in 2000, Lhotse and K2 in 2001, Annapurna I in 2002 and Everest, Gasherbrum II, Gasherbrum I and Manaslu RP in 2006, died in an avalanche on Everest, aged 36.
2009 Peter Fessler, Austrian climber, who ascended Broad Peak in 1999, Gasherbrum I in 2004 and Manaslu RP in 2007, died, aged 48.
2013 Namgyal II, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Cho Oyu four times (2001, 2003, 2004 and 2005) and Everest eight times (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2013), died on descent of the latter, aged 35.
2019 Ivan Yuriev Tomov, Bulgarian climber, who ascended Broad Peak in 2014, Manaslu RP in 2017 and Lhotse in 2019, where he died on descent, aged 35.