Jean-Christophe Lafaille Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Jean-Christophe Lafaille (31 March 1965 – 27 January 2006 [presumed]) was a French mountaineer noted for a number of difficult ascents in the Alps and Himalaya, and for what has been described as "perhaps the finest self-rescue ever performed in the Himalaya", when he was forced to descend the mile-high south face of Annapurna alone with a broken arm, after his climbing partner had been killed in a fall. He climbed eleven of the fourteen eight-thousand-metre peaks, many of them alone or by previously unclimbed routes, but disappeared during a solo attempt to make the first winter ascent of Makalu, the world's fifth highest mountain.
One of the world's leading climbers, he had continually undertaken risky mountaineering challenges.
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On January 31, 2006 when Lafaille had been missing for a week, his base camp support team concluded that he must have perished in his attempt to make the first solo winter climb of the 27,765 foot Himalayan peak Makalu. His wife flew over the mountain by helicopter and confirmed that there was no longer any hope that he would be found alive. His official date of death was determined to be January 27, 2006.
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On his first visit to the Himalayas in 1992 he made an extraordinary solo escape from the ferocious South Face of Annapurna. His climbing partner Pierre Beghin fell to his death during this climb.
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Year
Status
Character
Shishapangma, un solo en hiver
2006
Video short
Trio for One
2003
Documentary
A Matter of Doubt
2002
Documentary short
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Trio for One
2003
Documentary based on the actual experiences of
A Matter of Doubt
2002
Documentary short based on the actual experiences of