• Jean Couzy (9 July 1923 – 2 November 1958) was a French mountaineer. He studied aeronautical engineering at the École Polytechnique. At age 27, he was...
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    and Jean Couzy of a French expedition led by Jean Franco. Franco, Guido Magnone and Gyalzen Norbu Sherpa summitted the next day, followed by Jean Bouvier...
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    led by Herzog (including Lionel Terray, Gaston Rébuffat, Marcel Ichac, Jean Couzy, Marcel Schatz, Jacques Oudot, Francis de Noyelle), reached the summit...
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    high eagle with 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...
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    including on the 1955 French Makalu expedition in the Himalaya (with Jean Couzy on 15 May 1955) and Cerro Fitz Roy in the Patagonian Andes (with Guido...
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    Makalu 8,485 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...
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  • 1856) 1952 – Mehmet Esat Bülkat, Greek-Turkish general (b. 1862) 1958 – Jean Couzy, French mountaineer and engineer (b. 1923) 1959 – Michael Considine, Irish-Australian...
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    the summit – Jean Couzy and Lionel Terray on 15 May 1955, followed next day by Jean Franco, Guido Magnone and Gyalzen Norbu; and then Jean Bouvier, Serge...
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    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, the fifth-highest...
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    Jules Jacot Guillarmod, in: Les alpinistes célèbres, Henri de Segogne und Jean Couzy, 1956, p. 123-135. Georges Terrier, Jules Jacot Guillarmod, médecin, alpiniste...
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