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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

with Shambu Tamang, Ang Karma and Narayan Shrestha on August 28, 1985 Erhard Loretan and Jean Troillet in 1986 Sharon Wood and Dwayne Congdon on May 20,...

2009 – Richard Pratt, Polish-Australian businessman (b. 1934) 2011 – Erhard Loretan, Swiss mountaineer (b. 1959) 2012 – Fred Allen, New Zealand rugby player...