Jean-Christophe Lafaille, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jean-Christophe Lafaille

French mountaineer

Date of Birth: 31-Mar-1965

Place of Birth: Gap, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France

Date of Death: 26-Jan-2006

Profession: mountain guide, rock climber, mountaineer

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Jean-Christophe Lafaille (31 March 1965 – 27 January 2006 [presumed]) was a French mountaineer noted for a number of difficult ascents in the Alps and Himalaya, and for what has been described as "perhaps the finest self-rescue ever performed in the Himalaya", when he was forced to descend the mile-high south face of Annapurna alone with a broken arm, after his climbing partner had been killed in a fall.
He climbed eleven of the fourteen eight-thousand-metre peaks, many of them alone or by previously unclimbed routes, but disappeared during a solo attempt to make the first winter ascent of Makalu, the world's fifth highest mountain.