01 October

Born on this day

1937 Ryszard Szafirski, Polish climber, who participated in the first ascent of Kunyang Chhish (7852 m) in 1971. He died in 2016, aged 79.
1943 Michal Orolín, Slovak climber, who ascended Nanga Parbat in 1971.
1948 Vladimir (Volodya) Balyberdin, Russian climber, who ascended Everest twice (1982 and 1991), Kangchenjunga in 1989 by traverse from South-Peak across the Central- and Main-Peaks to Yalung Kang (sixteen days earlier he already ascended the Central-Peak) and K2 in 1992. He died in a car accident in 1994, aged 45.
1949 Kanhaiya Lal (Pokhriyal), Indian climber, who ascended Kangchenjunga in 1991 and Everest in 1992.
1950 Nobuko Yanagisawa, Japanese lady climber, who ascended Gasherbrum II in 1988.
1956 Mikel Ruiz de Apodaka, Spanish Basque climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1985 and Nanga Parbat in 1992. He died in 2002 in a climbing accident on Pik Lézat in the Pyrenees, aged 45.
1958 Chun Byung-Tai, Korean climber, who ascended Everest in 2004.
1958 Ang Chiri, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest in 1999.
1959 Trudi Anne Seiwald, American lady climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2014 and Everest in 2016.
1960 Philip John Ayvazian, American climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2017.
1961 Athol Whimp, climber from New Zealand, who ascended Kumbhakarna (Jannu) in 2000. He died in 2012 in Fiordland, aged 50.
1961 Milan (Švidry) Sedláček, Czech climber, who ascended Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 2002 and Lhotse in 2012, where he died on descent, aged 50.
1962 Ang Gyalzen II, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1995, Everest three times (spring and autumn 1996 and 1998) and Gasherbrum I and II in 1997.
1963 Marcus James Dell, Canadian climber, who ascended Broad Peak in 2006.
1963 Andrej Gradišik, Slovenian climber, who ascended Everest in 2023.
1965 Dorje I, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest fifteen times (1992, spring and autumn 1993, spring and autum 1994, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2010), Makalu in 2002 and Cho Oyu in 2004.
1965 Lhakpa Dorje III, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest six times (1995, 1996, 2003, 2004, 2006 and 2010) and Lhotse three times (2003, 2012 and 2013).
1966 Galen Arthur Woodmansee, British climber, who ascended Manaslu M in 2025.
1968 Andrei Aleksandrov, Russian climber, who ascended Makalu in 1998 and Everest in 2000.
1968 Stephane Mayer Millette, Canadian climber, who ascended K2 in 2024.
1970 Liu Qing, Chinese climber, who ascended Manaslu in 2019.
1971 Jennifer Claire Willis, Australian lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2026.
1972 Kunga Bhutia, Indian lady climber, who ascended Everest in 1993 and Kamet in 1998.
1972 Arkadiusz Adam Babij, Polish climber, who ascended Everest in 2017.
1974 Rossella Tonso, Italian lady climber, who ascended Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 2004 and Gasherbrum II in 2006.
1975 Dawa Chhiri III, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest in 2009.
1975 Chen Guo-Qing, Chinese climber, who ascended Everest in 2023.
1976 Bal Bahadur Lopchan I, Nepalese climber, who ascended Everest in 2012.
1976 Chen Guang, Chinese climber, who ascended Everest in 2018.
1976 Batkhishig Baldorj, Mongolian lady climber, who ascended Lhotse in 2023, Manaslu M in 2024 and Everest in 2025.
1977 Mingma I (earlier Mingma Dorje II), Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest nine times (1999, 2000, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2012, 2013 and 2016), Cho Oyu twice (2006 and 2007) and Manaslu RP in 2011.
1977 Samuel Dean Sidiqi, Afghan/American climber, who ascended Everest in 2023.
1978 Samer Akkad, Syrian climber, who ascended Everest in 2019.
1979 Musa Ibrahim, Bangladeshi climber, who ascended Everest in 2010.
1979 Kiril Lyulyaev, Russian climber, who ascended Everest in 2017.
1979 Alexander Telnov, Russian climber, who ascended Everest in 2017 and Lhotse in 2019.
1979 Dawa Sambu, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest in 2022.
1981 Jangbu VIII, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest four times (2008, 2009, 2011 and 2013).
1981 Lakpa XII, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest in 2024.
1982 Pasang Gelu IV, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest in 2021.
1983 Gongga (aka Kunga), Tibetan climber, who ascended Cho Oyu three times (2006, 2007 and 2008).
1983 Dompa, (Dunba, Thumba), Tibetan climber, who ascended Everest ten times (2005, 2007, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017 and 2020) and Cho Oyu seven times (2005, twice in 2006, 2007, 2009, 2016 and 2017).
1983 Ngima Kancha, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest and Manaslu M in 2023.
1983 Beena Magar, Nepalese lady climber, who ascended Everest in 2012.
1984 Pasang Tenzing II, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest sixteen times (2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, twice in 2011, 2013, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022 and 2023), Cho Oyu three times (2006, 2007 and 2011), Manaslu RP in 2014 and Lhotse in 2022.
1984 Ang Pemba II, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest thirteen times (2006, 2008, 2011, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026), Cho Oyu in 2016, Manaslu RP twice (2018 and 2019), Manaslu M three times (2022, 2023 and 2024) and Lhotse in 2024.
1984 Dawa Temba V, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest twice (2021 and 2023) and Manaslu M in 2025.
1984 Guan Shou-Hui, Chinese climber, who ascended Everest in 2026.
1984 Hou Geng, Chinese climber, who ascended Everest in 2026.
1985 Pasang (h), Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Lhotse in 2013.
1985 Dawa Wangchu (b), Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Kangchenjunga in 2014. He died on Yalung Kang two days later, aged 28.
1985 Dawa (g), Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Makalu and Manaslu M in 2025.
1986 Sonam Tshering II (aka Ang Sona), Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest four times (2008, 2010, 2011 and 2012).
1986 Tanvir Ahmed, Banghladeshi climber, who ascended Manaslu M in 2025.
1988 Tian Yun-Gui, Chinese climber, who ascended Manaslu M in 2025 and Everest and Lhotse in 2026.
1992 Pasang Nima II (Ngima), Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest fourteen times (2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022, in 2023 twice, 2024, 2025 and 2026) and Manaslu RP four times (2011, 2012, 2013 and 2019), Cho Oyu in 2016, Manaslu M three times (2022, 2023 and 2025), K2 twice (2023 and 2024) and Lhotse in 2024.
2001 Pasang Chhodar Bhote, Nepalese climber, who ascended Everest in 2025.

First ascents on this day

1938 Chaturangi (6395 m) by an Austrian party.
1979 Bhagirathi Parvat I North-Peak (6556 m) by a Czechoslovak party.

Gone on this day

1994 Zdeněk Šlachta, Czech climber, who attempted Shisha Pangma, died there by serac fall, aged 32.
1996 Masatsugu Konishi, Japanese climber, who ascended Dhaulagiri I in 1994, Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 1995 and Manaslu RP in 1996, where he disappeared on descent, aged 57.
2008 Yoshinobu Kato, Japanese climber, who ascended Manaslu RP twice (1997 and 2006), Gasherbrum II and Gasherbrum I in 2001, Lhotse in 2002, Annapurna I in 2003, Everest twice (2005 and 2008) and Cho Oyu and Shisha Pangma in 2006, died in an avalanche on Kula Kangri (7538 m), aged 32.
2008 Susumu Nakamura, Japanese adventurer, who travelled to the North Pole in 1978, ascended Everest in 1988 and travelled to the South Pole in the season 1994/1995, died also in the avalanche on Kula Kangri (7538 m), aged 62.
2011 Anatoli Moshnikov, Russian climber, who ascended Everest twice (1990 and 1998) and Dhaulagiri I in 1996, died while climbing in the Altai, aged 58.
2015 John Robert (Johnny) Strange, American climber, who ascended Everest in 2009, died while base jumping in Switzerland, aged 23.