14 March

Born on this day

1943 Jan de Lint, Dutch climber, who ascended Manaslu in 2009.
1950 Beat Supersaxo, Swiss climber, who ascended Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 1995.
1953 Josef (Sepp) von Rotz, Swiss climber, who ascended Broad Peak in 1999, Manaslu RP in 2002 and Shisha Pangma in 2004.
1957 Christine Janin, French lady climber, who ascended Gasherbrum II in 1981, Gasherbrum I in 1986 and Everest in 1990. She also finished the Carstensz-version of the Seven Summits in 1992 and travelled to the North Pole in 1997.
1957 Karl-Ludwig Holzer, German climber, who ascended Gasherbrum II in 2013.
1959 David Allason Pritt, British climber, who ascended Everest in 2002.
1962 Park Hee-Taek, Korean climber, who ascended Nanga Parbat in 1992.
1963 Keith Spencer, American climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2008.
1967 Park Jong-Cheol, Korean climber, who ascended Everest in 2002.
1967 David Jewell, climber from New Zealand, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1997.
1967 Simon Gregory Prosser, American climber, who ascended Manaslu M in 2023.
1968 Pablo Barrenetxea, Spanish Basque climber, who ascended Nanga Parbat in 1993.
1969 Konstantin Umrilov, Russian climber, who ascended Everest in 2014.
1971 Arkhom Kijwanichprasert, climber from Thailand, who ascended Everest in 2011.
1971 Mattias Ignazio Conte, Italian climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2018 and Gasherbrum II in 2019.
1972 Deepu Sharma, Indian lady climber, who ascended Everest in 1993.
1974 Bernabé Fernandez, Spanish free-climber.
1974 Michael Lundell, Swedish climber, who ascended Nanga Parbat in 2004.
1975 Fredrik (Frippe) Ericsson, Swedish climber, who ascended Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 2004 and Gasherbrum II in 2005. He skied down from both peaks. He died on K2 in 2010, aged 35.
1979 Dawa Gyalje (aka Dawa Gyalzen), Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest fourteen times (2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2018, 2019, 2021, three times in 2023 and 2025), Cho Oyu in 2009, Manaslu RP twice (2011 and 2021), Gasherbrum II three times (2016, 2023 and 2024), Gasherbrum I three times (2016, 2023 and 2025), K2 twice (2017 and 2022), Broad Peak Foresummit in 2017, Lhotse in 2019, Annapurna I and Manaslu M three times (2021, 2023 and 2025), Dhaulagiri I, Kangchenjunga, Makalu and Broad Peak in 2022, Nanga Parbat in 2023 and Shisha Pangma in 2024, where he finished all 14 8K Main-Peaks.
1981 Iman Gurung II, Nepalese climber, who ascended Dhaulagiri I in 2016, Everest five times (2018, 2019, 2023, 2024 and 2025), Manaslu RP in 2019 and Manaslu M three times (2023, 2024 and 2025).
1984 Phuri I (Furi), Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2014 and Everest seven times (2016, twice in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022 and 2024).
1984 Marco Majori, Italian climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2021.
1988 Clinton James (Clint) Kugler, American climber, who ascended Everest in 2018.
1991 Natalia Briukhovetskaia, Russian lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2025.
1991 Chuan He, Chinese climber, who ascended Manaslu M in 2025.
1995 Orlando José Montes Espinosa, American climber, who ascended Everest in 2024.
1997 Chhebi Bhote II, Nepalese Bhutia climber, who ascended Everest five times (2018, 2021, 2022, 2024 and 2025), Kangchenjunga in 2023 and Manaslu M in 2025.
2000 Pemba Chhongba, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest in 2022.
2002 Pem Lakpa, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Makalu three times (2019, 2022 and 2025), Manaslu M three times (2022, 2023 and 2024), Everest twice (2023 and 2024), K2 in 2023 and Annapurna I and Gasherbrum I in 2025.

Gone on this day

1999 Jiří Šmíd, Swiss climber of Czech origin, who ascended Gasherbrum II in 1997, died in the Bernese Alps, aged 51.
2017 Royal Robbins, American free-climber, died, aged 82.