Sixty-nine years ago today, the pioneering French alpinist and ski instructor Louis Lachenal died in a crevasse in the Alps. Lachenal was one of the first two mountaineers in the world to summit an ...
French alpinist Louis Lachenal died in a crevasse in the Alps 69 years ago today. Lachenal was one of the first two mountaineers in history to summit an 8,000m peak - Annapurna I in 1950. Fourteen ...
Hard work, danger — even the possibility of death — don’t chill climbers’ passion for some peaks. Veteran climber Ed Viesturs and David Roberts, the author of 20 books on mountaineering, adventure and ...
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