22 January

Born on this day

1941 Rudolf Schaider, German climber, who ascended Manaslu RP (C3) in 1984.
1957 Richard Lechleitner, American climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2000.
1957 Juan Pablo Ruiz, Colombian climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1999 and Everest twice (2001 and 2007).
1957 Siegfried Wasserbauer, Austrian climber, who ascended Broad Peak Foresummit in 1994.
1962 Stelvio Boaretto, Italian climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2014.
1963 Andrew Michael Allan Chandler, British climber, who ascended Everest in 2006.
1963 Walter Stöckli, Swiss climber, who ascended Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 2007.
1964 Roddy Kirkwood, British (Scottish) climber, who ascended Everest in 1994.
1966 Yuka Endo, Japanese lady climber, who ascended Nanga Parbat in 1988, Gasherbrum I in 1989, Gasherbrum II in 1990 and Cho Oyu in 1994.
1967 José Baena, Spanish Andalusian climber, who ascended Everest in 2008.
1968 Ma Bin, Chinese climber, who ascended Everest in 2017.
1969 Andreas Maurus, German climber, who ascended Gurla Mandhata in 2002.
1969 Da Dendi, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest twice (2007 and 2009)
1970 Haldun Ulkenli, Turkish climber, who ascended Everest in 2006.
1971 Michael Winston Grigsby, American climber, who ascended Everest and Lhotse in 2013.
1972 Kostiantyn Morozov, Ukrainian climber, who ascended Everest in 2013.
1973 Xu Gang, Chinese climber, who ascended Everest in 2016.
1975 Petr Novák (2), Czech climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2004.
1977 Marek Chmielarski, Polish climber, who ascended Gasherbrum II in 2006 and Broad Peak in 2014.
1977 Nawang Phuti, Nepalese Sherpani, who ascended Everest twice (2008 and 2011).
1978 Tomoe Kobayashi, Japanese climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2012.
1980 Zhang Bin, Chinese climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2018.
1983 Dendi V, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Cho Oyu twice (2007 and 2012), Everest six times (2009, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2017 and 2021) and Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 2012.
1989 Lukas Hochmeister, Austrian climber, who ascended Everest in 2013.
1990 Martin Ksandr, Czech climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2015 and Gasherbrum II in 2021.
1993 Dikki, Nepalese Sherpani, who ascended Manaslu in 2017 and Everest in 2018.
1994 Tendi VI, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Manaslu RP twice (2013 and 2014) and Everest in 2019.
1994 Zachary Tylor White, American climber, who ascended Everest in 2022.
1996 Lakpa IV, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest three times (2019, 2022 and 2023), Lhotse twice (2022 and 2023), K2 in 2022 and Nuptse in 2023.
2000 Zhou Qian-Long, Chinese climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2023 and Everest in 2024.

Gone on this day

1925 Fanny Bullock Workman, American lady pioneer, who was the first woman on top of a Himalayan peak back in 1906, died, aged 66.
2005 Sergei Borisov, Russian climber, who ascended Everest in 2002 and Kumbhakarna (aka Jannu) in 2004. He died in a car crash in 2005, aged 47.
2010 Luca Vuerich, Italian climber, who ascended Gasherbrum II, Gasherbrum I and Broad Peak in 2003, Lhotse in 2004 and Manaslu in 2008, died after being hit by an avalanche in the Slovenian Alps, aged 34.