Louis Lachenal

Born: 1921-07-17

Louis Lachenal, born July 17, 1921 in Annecy and died November 25, 1955 in the Vallée Blanche in Chamonix, is a French mountaineer, first winner with Maurice Herzog, in 1950, of one of the peaks over eight thousand meters: Annapurna (8091 meters). Louis Lachenal made his first ascents on the Biclope rock in 1934. An assiduous choir boy, he preferred the world of the street to school benches. His...