Makalu
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Makalu is the fifth-highest mountain on Earth, with a summit at an elevation of 8,485 metres AMSL. It is located in the Mahalangur Himalayas 19 km southeast of Mount Everest, on the China–Nepal border
Glacier on Makalu
Makalu
2004 photo mosaic: the Himalayas with Makalu and Mount Everest from the International Space Station, Expedition 8.
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
Makalu
…Pavlenko, Igor Bugachevski and Nikolai Jiline to the summit. This ascent won the 1998 Piolet d'Or. 2006: On or about January 27 the French mountaineer Jean-Christophe Lafaille disappeared on Makalu while trying to make the first winter ascent. 2009: Makalu was first climbed in winter on February 9, 2009, by Italian Simone…
The South Face of Annapurna
Les Drus, where Lafaille made his hardest Alpine climb