19 May

Born on this day

1933 Claudio Lucero, Chilean climber, who ascended Gasherbrum II in 1979.
1946 Aleksei Lebedikhin, Russian climber, who ascended Dhaulagiri I in 1993.
1948 Hiroyuki Baba, Japanese climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1992.
1950 Piotr Snopczyński, Polish climber, who ascended Gasherbrum II in 1993 and Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 2006.
1954 Thomas Hägler, Swiss climber, who ascended Annapurna I in 1982 and Broad Peak in 1984.
1954 Hans Bärnthaler, Austrian climber, who ascended Shisha Pangma and Cho Oyu in 1988. He died on K2 in 1989, aged 35.
1956 Dieter Kramer, German climber, who ascended Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 1998 and Nanga Parbat in 2001. He died on Everest in 2005, aged 49.
1956 Piotr (Petr) Kuznetsov, Russian climber, who ascended Dhaulagiri I in 1992, Everest twice (1996 and 2004) and Lhotse Central-Peak in 2001 (first ascent!). He died on K2 in 2006, aged 50.
1958 Kiyoshi Ushijima, Japanese climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2007.
1958 Bernard Jean François Milian, French climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2011 and died on descent, aged 52.
1959 Dawa Nuru I (Da Nuru), Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Makalu in 1987, Everest twelve times (1990, 1993, 2001, twice in 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2019) and Cho Oyu five times (1990, 1995, 1996, 2008 and 2009).
1961 Pema Tharke, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Cho Oyu twice (2005 and 2009) and Everest in 2007.
1962 Robert Wayne Jackson, Australian climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2003 and Everest in 2007.
1963 Dawa I, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest six times (1996, 1997, twice in 1999, 2000 and 2004).
1966 David Joseph O'Brien, British climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2006 and Everest seven times (2010, 2013, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2022 and 2023).
1967 Nicolas Gex, Swiss climber, who ascended Dhaulagiri I in 1994 and Shisha Pangma in 2001.
1967 Borja Pascual, Spanish Madrilian climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2004.
1970 Li Wei-She, Chinese climber, who ascended Everest in 2023.
1971 Javier Cruz, Spanish Canarian climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2002.
1975 Carlos Javier Carvajal, Spanish Andalusian climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2014.
1976 David Knill, Czech climber, who ascended Gasherbrum I in 2009.
1979 Manuel (Lolo) Díez, Spanish Madrilian climber, who ascended Everest in 2009.
1979 Bis Bahadur Gurung I, Nepalese climber, who ascended Everest in 2018 and Manaslu RP in 2019.
1982 Alexandru Costin (Alex) Gavan, Romanian climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2006, Gasherbrum I in 2007, Makalu in 2008, Manaslu RP in 2011, Shisha Pangma in 2013, Broad Peak in 2014 and Gasherbrum II in 2019.
1982 Piotr Śliwiński, Polish climber, who ascended Everest in 2018.
1983 Jason Martin Howell, American climber, who ascended Everest in 2022.
1984 Alexandra Nemeth, Hungarian lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2018.
1986 Pasang Bhote III, Nepalese Bhutia climber, who ascended Everest three times (2008, 2009 and 2011) and Cho Oyu twice (2009 and 2010).
1986 Vyacheslav (Slav) Tokarev, American climber, who ascended Everest in 2018.
1987 Rinurbu, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Lhotse in 2024.
1989 Dhan Prasad Ghale, Nepalese climber, who ascended Everest in 2017.
1991 Nima Doma I, Nepalese Sherpani, who ascended Everest in 2008.
1991 Karma Gyalzen VII, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest three times (2016, 2018 and 2019).
1995 Guru Bhote I, Nepalese Bhutia climber, who ascended Everest four times (2018, 2019, 2023 and 2024) and Manaslu RP in 2021.
1995 Kelly Gabriel, Canadian lady climber, who ascended Manaslu M in 2025.
1997 Rima Rinje, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest four times (2018, 2022, 2023 and 2024), Lhotse in 2019 and Manaslu M in 2023.

First ascents on this day

1912 Mount Blackburn East-Peak (aka Kennedy Peak, 4964 m) by a lady climber from Philadelphia, Dora Keen, and George Handy. It was thought for about 50 years, that this was the first ascent of the Main-Peak (4996 m).
1930 Ramthang Lho (6601 m) by a German party.
1964 Talung (7349 m) by a German party.
1978 Kangchenjunga South-Peak (8476 m), difficult subsidiary peak of Kangchenjunga, by a Polish party.
1982 Pungpa Ri (7486 m), subsidiary peak of Shisha Pangma, by a British party.
1990 Zangser Kangri South (about 6475 m according to SRTM data) by a Sino-Japanese party.

Gone on this day

1982 Reinhard Karl, German climber, who was the first German on Everest in 1978 and ascended Gasherbrum II in 1979 as well, died in an avalanche on Cho Oyu, aged 35.
1996 Reinhard Wlasich, Austrian climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1990, died on Everest, aged 45.
2009 Wu Wen-Hong, Chinese climber, who ascended Everest the day before, died on descent, aged 40.
2012 Milan (Švidry) Sedláček, Czech climber, who ascended Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 2002 and Lhotse in 2012, where he died on descent, aged 50.
2012 Ha Wen-Yi, Chinese climber, who ascended Everest on that day, died on descent, aged 54.
2012 Erich Eberhard Schaaf, German climber, who ascended Everest on that day, died on descent, aged 61.
2012 Shriya Shah-Klorfine, Nepal-born Canadian lady climber, who ascended Everest on that day, died on descent, aged 33.
2012 Song Won-Bin, Korean climber, who ascended Everest on that day, died on descent, aged 44.