Andrew Lock

Andrew James Lock OAM is an Australian mountaineer. He became the first, and still remains the only, Australian to climb all 14 "eight-thousanders" on 2 October 2009, and is the 18th person to ever complete this feat. He climbed 13 of the 14 without bottled oxygen, only using it on Mount Everest, which he has summited three times. He retired from eight-thousander climbing in 2012. ^{Andrew Lock, Australian mountaineer}

26 December 1961

Born on the same birth day (26 December): Alejo Carpentier • Aleksej Pokuševski • Damir Markota • Denis Quilley • Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor • Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald • Henry Miller • Kit Harington • Kraftwerk • Nobuhiko Matsunaka • René Bazin • Robert Muchamore • Rolf Botvid • Tim Legler • Tomáš Kundrátek • Toomas Hendrik Ilves • Trevor Taylor (racing driver) • Yi I

Born in the same month (December 1961): Angie Stone • Ann Coulter • Ben Johnson (Canadian sprinter) • Charlie Nicholas • Eric Allin Cornell • Ilham Aliyev • Kevin Granata • Lalchand Rajput • Ralf Dujmovits • Ryuji Sasai • Sara Dallin