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    Lionel Terray (25 July 1921 – 19 September 1965) was a French climber who made many first ascents, including on the 1955 French Makalu expedition in the...
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    22: Jean Franco, Lionel Terray, sirdar Gyalzen Norbu Sherpa and Pa Norbu) and Chomo Lonzo (likely on October 30: Jean Couzy and Terray). Makalu was first...
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    village and Viedma Lake. It was first climbed in 1952 by French alpinists Lionel Terray and Guido Magnone. The first Europeans recorded as seeing Mount Fitz...
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  • their potential was French mountaineer Lionel Terray. The result saw the specialist range "Moncler pour Lionel Terray". In 1954, Moncler quilted jackets were...
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    alpinist Lionel Terray. Those reaching the summit were René Desmaison, Paul Keller, Robert Paragot and Gyalzen Mitchung Sherpa (April 27) and Lionel Terray, André...
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    Lachenal, of the French Annapurna expedition led by Herzog (including Lionel Terray, Gaston Rébuffat, Marcel Ichac, Jean Couzy, Marcel Schatz, Jacques Oudot...
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    The Netherlands Himalayan Expedition, led by famous French climber Lionel Terray. The first ascents on Nilgiri South and Nilgiri Central were made by...
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    first climbed in 1964 by a French expedition led by famed alpinist Lionel Terray, via the Northwest Ridge, from then on also called the French Ridge...
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    other than that of a journal, such as Conquistadors of the Useless by Lionel Terray. Documentaries often use the theme of adventure as well. There are many...
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  • 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...
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    spread wings. On October 30, 1954 the French climbers Jean Couzy and Lionel Terray made the first ascent of the main summit via the gently sloping SW ridge...
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    difficult-to-climb six-thousander in the Andes. A French expedition led by Lionel Terray first climbed the mountain on 31 July 1956 (Chakrarahu Oeste) and on...
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    485 m (27,838 ft) 2,378 m (7,802 ft) Nepal China 15 May 1955 Jean Couzy Lionel Terray on French expedition 9 February 2009 Simone Moro Denis Urubko Cho Oyu...
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  • film comes from Lionel Terray's mountaineering autobiography, Les Conquérants de l'inutile or Conquistadors of the Useless (1961). Terray was the first...
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    where he was introduced to high altitude mountaineering. There he met Lionel Terray, a French mountaineer who would join Rébuffat on the 1950 Annapurna...
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  • days. 1947 (July 14–16): Second ascent of the face by the Frenchmen Lionel Terray and Louis Lachenal. 1947 (August 4–5): Third ascent by the Swiss climbers...
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  • was led by Maurice Herzog, and include such climbing luminaries as Lionel Terray, Louis Lachenal and Gaston Rébuffat. See Annapurna by Maurice Herzog...
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    Salvador Allende) at Croix de Berny: Heller Park the Velpeau stadium the Lionel Terray sports centre the Pierre de Coubertin gymnasium the Rabats gymnasium...
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    in 1947, first by a party of two French guides, Louis Lachenal and Lionel Terray, then by a Swiss party consisting of H. Germann, with Hans and Karl...
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  • (1876–1962), botanist Pierre Cot (1895–1977), anti-fascist politician Lionel Terray (1921–1965), climber Michel Calonne (1927–2019), writer Ultra Violet...
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  • ascents Günter Seyfferth, Shisha Pangma exploration and first ascents Lionel Terray, Mount Huntington AAJ 14 p 289 (1965) Walter Welsch The Moose's Tooth...
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  • three younger Chamonix professional mountain guides, Louis Lachenal, Lionel Terray and Gaston Rébuffat, and two amateurs Jean Couzy and Marcel Schatz [fr]...
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  • Members of the expedition included Louis Lachenal, Gaston Rébuffat, and Lionel Terray, then regarded as some of the finest mountaineers in the world, now...
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  • Adolph Herseth, American soldier and trumpet player (d. 2013) 1921 – Lionel Terray, French mountaineer (d. 1965) 1922 – John B. Goodenough, American materials...
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  • Dingell, Sr., American journalist and politician (b. 1894) 1965 – Lionel Terray, French mountaineer (b. 1921) 1967 – Zinaida Serebriakova, Ukrainian-French...
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    UK, a poorly-protected off-width crack that is 50 feet long. 1952 : Lionel Terray, Guido Magnone make the first ascent of Mount Fitzroy (11,020 feet)...
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    with one sleeping bag for four climbers (Lachenal, Gaston Rébuffat, Lionel Terray, and Herzog) resulted in severe frostbite, with consequent gangrene...
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  • French Makalu expedition Couzy made the first ascent of Makalu with Lionel Terray on 15 May 1955. In the Alps, Jean Couzy was the first to ascend the...
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    Union, and France) and Austria, setting it up as a neutral country. Lionel Terray and Jean Couzy become the first people to reach the summit of Makalu...
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    of being caught in mountain storms. The Conquerors of the useless by Lionel Terray: Surprised during the ascent of Mount Maudit, the author writes "At...
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