Louis Lachenal

French mountain climber
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroFrench mountain climber
PlacesFrance
wasMountaineer Mountain guide
Work fieldSports
Gender
Male
Birth17 July 1921, Annecy
Death25 November 1955Vallée Blanche (aged 34 years)
The details

Biography

Louis Lachenal (17 July 1921 – 25 November 1955), a French climber born in Annecy, Haute-Savoie, was one of the first two mountaineers to climb a summit of more than 8,000 meters. On 3 June 1950, along with Maurice Herzog, he reached the summit of Annapurna I in Nepal at a height of 8,091 m (26,545 ft). Previously he had made the second ascent of the North Face of the Eiger in 1947, with Lionel Terray. He died falling into a snow-covered crevasse while skiing the Vallee Blanche in Chamonix. The mountain Pointe Lachenal in the Mont Blanc massif was named after him.

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