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Place of Birth: Nérac, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
About Jean Couzy
- Jean Couzy (9 July 1923 – 2 November 1958) was a French mountaineer.
- He studied aeronautical engineering at the École Polytechnique.
- At age 27, he was a member of Maurice Herzog's 1950 expedition to Annapurna.
- Prior to this, his usual climbing partner was Marcel Schatz, another member of the expedition.
- Couzy made the first ascent of Makalu with Lionel Terray on May 15, 1955. In the Alps, Jean Couzy was the first to ascend the following routes: Aiguille de l'M near Chamonix, a classical Severe (D) route named "la Couzy" An Extremely Severe (ED) route on the north-west face of the Olan. The Couzy route on the North Face of the Cima Ovest, Dolomites.On November 2, 1958, he was hit on the head by a rock fall in the southern face of crête des Bergers (southern rim of the Bure plateau) in the Dévoluy Mountains.
- He is buried in Montmaur cemetery, at the foot of the mountain where his accident occurred.
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