10 July

Born on this day

1936 Marianne Walter, German lady climber, who ascended Shisha Pangma in 1983 accompanied by her husband Josef.
1949 Anna Czerwińska, Polish lady climber, who ascended Broad Peak Foresummit in 1983, Nanga Parbat in 1985, Everest and Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 2000, Lhotse and Cho Oyu in 2001, Gasherbrum II in 2003 and Makalu in 2006. In 2000 she also finished the Carstensz- and Kosciuszko-versions of the Seven Summits. She died in 2023, aged 73.
1954 Shokichi Saito, Japanese climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2003, Everest twice (2004 and 2009) and Manaslu RP in 2012. He also finished the Kosciuszko-version of the Seven Summits in 2006.
1957 Pieter Johan Van den Broeke, Dutch climber, who ascended Everest in 2016.
1958 Augusto Ortega, Peruvian climber, who ascended Everest twice (1992 and 1999).
1960 Rinat Khaibullin, Kazakh climber, who ascended Kangchenjunga South- and Main-Peaks seperately in 1989 and Dhaulagiri I in 1991.
1960 Giampaolo Gioia, Italian climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2002 and Broad Peak in 2007.
1960 Ricardo (Coco) Guerrero, Spanish Andalusian climber, who ascended Broad Peak in 2003, Cho Oyu in 2007 and Everest in 2008.
1960 Alessandro Rossi, Italian climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2009.
1965 Simon Nadin, British free-climber.
1965 Paolo Obert, Italian climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 1996 and Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 1999. He died in the Alps in 2005, aged 40.
1965 Tom Romary, American climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2001.
1966 Christian Stangl, Austrian climber, who ascended Shisha Pangma in 1998, Cho Oyu twice (2001 and 2007), Broad Peak Foresummit in 2004, Everest in 2006, Kangchenjunga in 2011 and K2 in 2012. He also finished the Carstensz-version of the Seven Summits in 2007. In 2013 he became the first climber who finished the Triple Seven Summits, including the first who finished both the Seven Second Summits and the Seven Third Summits.
1966 Jürgen Heinrich Diez, German climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2011, Manaslu RP in 2015, Broad Peak in 2019 and Dhaulagiri I in 2022.
1969 Mohammad Ali Khan, Indian climber, who ascended Everest in 2006.
1969 Michele Tonidandel, Italian climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2007.
1970 Baek Jong-Deuk, Korean climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2008.
1970 Yosuke Ikuta, Japanese climber, who ascended Everest in 2023.
1970 Yosuke Ikuta, Japanese climber, who ascended Everest in 2023.
1971 Bradley (Brad) Clement, American climber, who ascended Everest twice (2006 and 2008).
1973 Mark Wesley Starling, British climber, who ascended Everest in 2017.
1975 Jill Wheatley, Canadian lady climber, who ascended Manaslu M in 2021, Dhaulagiri I, Kangchenjunga, Makalu, K2 and Broad Peak in 2022 and Annapurna I in 2023.
1975 José María Errazu, Spanish Basque climber, who ascended Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 2004.
1976 Charles Julian Thompson, British climber, who ascended Everest in 2005.
1976 Pasang III, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest five times (2005, 2008, 2012, 2022 and 2024), Makalu in 2009 and Annapurna I in 2021.
1976 Zainudin Lot, Malaysian climber, who ascended Everest in 2013.
1976 Yan Hua-Dong, Chinese climber, who ascended Everest in 2019.
1979 Brian Wilfred Oestrike, American climber, who ascended Everest in 2007 and Lhotse in 2008.
1979 James Robert Brooman, British climber, who ascended Everest in 2017.
1983 Mirza Ali Baig, Pakistani climber, who ascended Everest in 2019.
1984 Jin Xiang-Yang, Chinese climber, who ascended Everest in 2023.
1984 Annemie Ruth Kostezer, Swiss lady climber, who ascended Manaslu M in 2024.
1985 Chandra Bahadur Thapa, Indian climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2011.
1986 Lucia Janičová, Slovak lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2024.
1987 Jangbu XII, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest in 2014.
1990 Gyalbu, Tibetan climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2013 and Everest twice (2016 and 2017).
1995 Sajan Dangol, Nepalese climber, who ascended Everest in 2025.
1997 Manaswi Agrawal, Indian lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2026.
2001 Shivangi Pathak, Indian lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2018.

First ascents on this day

1967 Nobaism Zom (6999 m) by an Austrian party.
1975 Grand Baltoro Cathedral (6007 m) by an Italian party.
1985 Kanjut Sar II (6831 m) by a Swiss party.

Gone on this day

1986 Tadeusz Piotrowski, Polish climber, who ascended Tirich Mir East-Peak in 1978, Rakaposhi in 1979, Disteghil Sar East-Peak in 1980 and K2 in 1986, where he died on descent, aged 46.
1994 Ukrainian climbers Dmitri Ibragim-Zade (39), Aleksei Kharaldin (38) and Aleksandr Parkhomenko (42), who all climbed Kangchenjunga in 1993, died on K2.
1999 Mihai Cioroianu, Romanian climber, who ascended Nanga Parbat in 1997 and Gasherbrum II in 1998, died on K2, aged 31.
2009 Wolfgang Kölblinger, Austrian climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2001, Broad Peak in 2007 and Nanga Parbat on this day, died on descent, aged 55.
2016 Norbert (Noppa) Joos, Swiss climber, who ascended Nanga Parbat in 1982, Manaslu RP (C3) and Annapurna I in 1984, K2 in 1985, Broad Peak in 1987, Gasherbrum II in 1988, Gasherbrum I in 1993, Cho Oyu in 1994, Dhaulagiri I in 1995, Shisha Pangma in 1996, Makalu in 2002, Lhotse in 2004 and Kangchenjunga in 2006, died by a fall on Piz Bernina, aged 55.