30 May

Born on this day

1938 Halina Krüger-Syrokomska, Polish lady climber, who was the first woman on Gasherbrum II in 1975. She died on K2 in 1982, aged 44.
1954 Dhanjeet Tamang, Nepalese climber, who ascended Manaslu twice (1996 and 2002) and Cho Oyu in 2000.
1956 Svetlana Baskakova, lady climber from Uzbekistan, who ascended Everest in 1998. She died in 2005 on Jengish Chokusu (earlier Pik Pobedy, Chinese Tomur Feng, 7439 m), aged 49.
1960 Michel Baccard, French climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2006.
1960 Maryse Guillemette, French lady climber, who ascended Gasherbrum II in 1999.
1960 Fernando Salvador Mello, Mexican climber, who ascended Everest in 2007.
1961 James Peter Haydock, Irish climber, who ascended Everest in 2010.
1962 Geir Jenssen, Norwegian climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2001.
1969 Damien Gildea, Australian climber and adventurer, who wrote an excellent book about the Antarctic mountaineering history and helped to produce the most recent map of the Sentinel Range. He resurveyed several peaks there and the major result was the new altitude of the Vinson Massif, 4892 m.
1973 Magdalena Prask, Polish lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2010.
1974 Fernando Peralta, Spanish Aragonese climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2003.
1974 Ian Wade, British climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2003, Gasherbrum II in 2004 and Everest in 2005.
1974 Meghan Suzanne Buchanan, American lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2022.
1975 Kamal Nayan, Indian climber, who ascended Everest in 2012.
1979 Estibaliz (Estitxu) Salinas, Spanish Basque lady climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2009.
1981 K. Siva Kumar, Indian climber, who ascended Everest in 2016.
1981 Nima Dorje (Saila) Tamang, Nepalese climber, who ascended Everest in 2022.
1982 Satish Raveendra Babu Gogineni, Indian climber, who ascended Everest and Lhotse in 2022 and Annapurna I and Dhaulagiri I in 2023.
1983 Sano Babu Sunuwar, Nepalese climber, who ascended Everest in 2011.
1983 Zhang Yu-Xuan, Chinese climber, who ascended Everest in 2019.
1984 Phurba Sonam I, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Annapurna I in 2019, Lhotse three times (2019, 2022 and 2023), Manaslu RP twice (2019 and 2021), Everest twice (2021 and 2023), Kangchenjunga, Nanga Parbat, Gasherbrum II, Gasherbrum I, Broad Peak and K2 in 2023, Manaslu M twice (2023 and 2025), Dhaulagiri I and Cho Oyu in 2023 and Makalu in 2024.
1984 Mingma Gyalje (a), Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Manaslu M in 2024.
1986 Tang Yao, Chinese climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2019.
1987 Lisa Denise Jelly, British lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2023.
1988 Gabriel Tarso Parente Silva, Brazilian climber, who ascended Everest three times (2021, 2022 and 2023) and Broad Peak, Gasherbrum I and K2 in 2023.
1990 Yuwantika Tamang, Nepalese lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2022.
1990 Daria Kuznetsova, Russian lady climber, who ascended Manaslu M in 2023.
1994 Patrick Fitzgerald Stanton, Australian climber, who ascended Gasherbrum II in 2022 and Manaslu M in 2025.
1996 Fura Gyalzen, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2014 and Everest five times (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2022) and Lhotse twice (2021 and 2022).
1997 Kyle Danger Samson, American climber, who ascended Everest in 2023.
2005 Mingma Tenji, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Manaslu M in 2023 and Everest in 2024.
2005 Zoja Natalia Skubis, Polish lady climber, who ascended Manaslu M in 2024 and Everest in 2025.

First ascents on this day

1954 Baruntse (7152 m) by the party from New Zealand led by Edmund Hillary.
1955 Annapurna IV (7525 m) by a German party.
1969 Kanjiroba SW-Peak (6514 m) by a Japanese party.
1980 Panwali Doar (6663 m) by a Japanese party.
1981 Sudarshan Parbat (6507 m) by a Franco-Indian party.
2009 Lhaqensangrag (6123 m) by a Swiss climber.