Erhard Loretan (28 April 1959 – 28 April 2011) was a Swiss mountain climber. He was the third man to climb all fourteen peaks over 8,000 meters, and the...

Loretan is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Brigitte Albrecht-Loretan (born 1970), Swiss cross-country skier Erhard Loretan (1959–2011)...

the aid of bottled oxygen, a feat that was only repeated by the Swiss Erhard Loretan nine years later in 1995 (Kukuczka had used supplementary oxygen while...

face (not reaching the main summit), Wojciech Kurtyka (Poland), FA by Erhard Loretan (Switzerland) and Jean Troillet (Switzerland) 1993: Far-right couloir...

8000 meters, all in alpine style and without oxygen. Together with Erhard Loretan, Troillet climbed Everest in 1986. The pair holds the speed record for...

first North American woman to summit Everest. 30 August 1986: Swiss Erhard Loretan and Jean Troillet, unprecedented and unrepeated, climbed the north face...

Kukuczka (1981, 1983, 1984), Doug Scott (1993, Nanga Parbat attempt), Erhard Loretan (1988, 1990, 1991, 1997), Reinhold Messner (1982, Cho Oyu winter attempt)...

climbed by C. Blum and U. Frei on 27 August 1967. Famed Swiss mountaineer Erhard Loretan died after a fall on the Grünhorn on 28 April 2011. Alps portal List...

He returned several times to the Himalayas, and in particular with Erhard Loretan and Jean Troillet. That year he would climb Pumori (7,161m). Romolo...

North Face of the Eiger in the Bernese Alps. In 1983, together with Erhard Loretan and Jean-Claude Sonnenwyl, Rüedi climbed the three main summits of the...