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): Cecilia Costa Melgar • E. D. E. N. Southworth • Esteban Fuertes • Fred Schepisi • Georgios Rallis • Jay Farrar • John Page (planter) • Martin Cooper (inventor) • Mary Somerville • Matt Zoller Seitz • Richard Levis McCormick • Todd Dunivant • Yu Takahashi (singer-songwriter)
Born in the same month (December 1961): Ben Johnson (Canadian sprinter) • David Anthony Higgins • David Lovering • Ilham Aliyev • Joe Lando • LaChanze • Lorna Tolentino • Mark Bugden • Mike Keneally • Wade Williams • Yuri Malenchenko