Louis Lachenal, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French mountain climber
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Place of Birth: Annecy, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
About Louis Lachenal
- 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 on the 1950 French Annapurna expedition, 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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