Louis Lachenal
Louis Lachenal (born July 17, 1921 in Annecy , † November 25, 1955 in the Vallée Blanche near Chamonix ) was a French alpinist .
Louis Lachenal was a member of the successful French Annapurna expedition in 1950 , in which Maurice Herzog , Gaston Rébuffat , Lionel Terray , Marcel Ichac , Jean Couzy , Marcel Schatz and Jacques Oudot were also involved. He and Maurice Herzog were the first to stand on the top of an eight-thousander on June 3, 1950 . Because of the severe frostbite he suffered, all of his toes and parts of his forefoot had to be amputated. His 1956 posthumously published diary entries for the expedition, Les Carnets du Vertige , were published in full in 1996.
In 1946 he and Lionel Terray made the second ascent of the Eiger north face .
At the end of November 1955, Lachenal sustained fatal injuries while descending through the Vallée Blanche near Chamonix when he fell into a crevasse 25 meters deep .
In honor of his numerous first ascents in the Mont-Blanc massif , a 3613 m high ridge of the Mont Blanc du Tacul was named after Louis Lachenal. Today there are over ten climbing routes on the Pointe Lachenal .
literature
- Maurice Herzog: Annapurna - first eight-thousander. Ullstein, Vienna 1955 (French original edition published 1951)
- Louis Lachenal, Gérard Herzog: Les Carnets du Vertige. Guérin, Chamonix 1996, ISBN 2-911755-01-4
Web links
- Louis Lachenal in the Historical Alpine Archives of the Alpine Clubs in Germany, Austria and South Tyrol (temporarily offline)
- Personal folder on Louis Lachenal (PDF) in the historical Alpine archive of the Alpine clubs in Germany, Austria and South Tyrol (temporarily offline)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hartmut Eberlein: Mont Blanc Group . Bergverlag Rother , page 158.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lachenal, Louis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French alpinist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 17, 1921 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Annecy |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 25, 1955 |
| Place of death | Vallée Blanche near Chamonix |