03 March

Born on this day

1932 Josef (Sepp) Hasholzner, German climber, who ascended Gasherbrum II in 1992.
1945 Henry Todd, British climber, who ascended Cho Oyu twice (1996 and 2002), Broad Peak Foresummit in 1999 and Manaslu RP in 2009.
1951 Giuseppe Vigani, Italian climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1992.
1954 Wolfgang Kölblinger, Austrian climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2001, Broad Peak in 2007 and Nanga Parbat in 2009, where he died on descent, aged 55.
1956 Bernd Müller, German climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2004, Gasherbrum II in 2006 and Dhaulagiri I in 2009.
1957 Stefano Biffi, Italian climber, who ascended Everest in 2007.
1958 Charles Hedrich, French climber, who ascended Everest in 2006.
1958 Oleg Nasedkin, Russian climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2000 and Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 2002.
1960 Kieron Mackenzie, British (Scottish) climber, who ascended Everest in 2001.
1961 Masao Koseki, Japanese climber, who ascended Dhaulagiri I in 1993.
1962 Manuel Penalva, Spanish Valencian climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 1996.
1962 Vladimir Grechka, American climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2008.
1963 Vladimír (Vlado) Plulík, Slovak climber, who ascended Everest in 1998 and Gasherbrum I in 2008. He died twelve days after the latter on Broad Peak, aged 45.
1964 Syozo Ono, Japanese climber, who ascended Gasherbrum II in 1997.
1964 Kenji Kasahara, Japanese climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2018 and Everest in 2022.
1966 Patrick Artola, French climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2009.
1969 Choi In-Ho, Korean climber, who ascended Lhotse in 2008.
1970 Jordi Barrancos, Spanish Catalan climber, who ascended Gasherbrum II in 2001.
1970 Fang Ping, Chinese climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2008, Manaslu in 2009 and Everest in 2010.
1971 Rafał Maciej Fronia, Polish climber, who ascended Gasherbrum II in 2006, Lhotse in 2017 and Broad Peak in 2022.
1972 Jangbu XIII, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest three times (2017, 2018 and 2024), Lhotse twice (2017 and 2018) and Makalu in 2024.
1973 Jon Beloki, Spanish Basque climber, who ascended Gasherbrum I in 2001, Cho Oyu in 2002 and Gasherbrum III in 2004.
1979 Daniel Norrington Quentin Wallace, British climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2016 and Everest in 2018.
1980 Miralem Husanović, climber from Bosnia-Herzegovina, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2008.
1981 Sergei Bublyk, Ukrainian climber, who ascended Himalchuli in 2007 and Makalu in 2010.
1982 Zebulon (Zeb) Blais, American climber, who ascended Everest twice (2016 and 2017) and Cho Oyu in 2016.
1982 Jangbu (d), Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended K2 in 2025.
1983 Dhane Karki, Indian climber, who ascended Makalu in 2019.
1984 Tang Bin, Chinese climber, who ascended Everest in 2023.
1985 Li Qian, Chinese lady climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2018.
1985 Gajendra Deuba, Nepalese climber, who ascended Everest in 2024 and Kangchenjunga in 2025.
1986 Joshua Tyler McDowell, American climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2014 and Everest three times (2016, 2017 and 2024).
1987 Chimi Tashi (Qimi Zhaxi), Tibetan climber, who ascended Everest eleven times (2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, twice in 2013, 2014, 2016 and 2017) and Cho Oyu three times (2007, 2016 and 2017).
1987 Ongda, Indian Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest in 2019.
1988 Tek Bahadur Rai, Nepalese climber, who ascended Kangchenjunga twice (2019 and 2022) and Everest in 2021.
1989 Tshering Dorje II, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest seven times (2008, 2009, twice in 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013), Cho Oyu twice within four days in 2009 and Manaslu RP three times (2011, 2012 and 2014).
1989 Daniel Araiza, Mexican climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2017. He died on Artesonraju in Peru in 2018, aged 29.
1990 Huang Ya-Ting, Chinese lady climber, who ascended Manaslu RP in 2017.
1996 Alan Scott Rae, British climber, who ascended Manaslu M in 2025.
1997 Dawa Tshering VI, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest twice (2023 and 2024).

Gone on this day

2012 Maria (Masha) Khitrikova, Ukrainian lady climber, who ascended Gasherbrum II and Gasherbrum I in 2011, died on Elbrus, aged 21.
2018 Xavier Eguskitza, Spanish Basque climber, mountain chronicler and researcher, died, aged 77.