Jean-Christophe Lafaille
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Jean-Christophe Lafaille was a French mountaineer, alpinist and rock climber who was noted for difficult first ascents and first solo winter ascents, in the Alps and in the Himalaya, as well as settin
The South Face of Annapurna
Les Drus, where Lafaille made his hardest Alpine climb
Makalu, scene of Jean-Christophe Lafaille's last climb
Shishapangma
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Shishapangma, or Shishasbangma or Xixiabangma, is the 14th-highest mountain in the world, at 8,027 metres above sea level. The lowest 8,000 metre peak, it is located entirely within Tibet.
Jean-Christophe Lafaille
…in the Himalaya. A year after his accident on Annapurna, he climbed Cho Oyu, and then in 1994 he climbed a new route, again solo, on the north face of Shishapangma. It was the first of many solo climbing ascents of eight-thousander peaks, including consecutive ascents of Gasherbrum I and Gasherbrum II in four days…
Shishapangma