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Lionel Terray

1921 - 1965

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Lionel Terray (25 July 1921 – 19 September 1965) was a French climber who made many first ascents, 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 Magnone in 1952). A climbing guide and ski instructor, Terray was active in mountain combat against Germany during World War II. After the war, he became well known as one of the best Chamonix climbers and guides, noted for his speedy ascents of some of the most notorious climbs in the French, Italian, and Swiss Alps: the Walker Spur of the Grandes Jorasses, the south face of the Aiguille Noire de Peuterey, the north-east face of Piz Badile, and the north face of the Eiger. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lionel Terray has received more than 120,420 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Lionel Terray is the 23rd most popular mountaineer (down from 22nd in 2019), the 2,725th most popular biography from France (down from 2,461st in 2019) and the 4th most popular French Mountaineer.

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Among MOUNTAINEERS

Among mountaineers, Lionel Terray ranks 23 out of 56. Before him are Matthias Zurbriggen, Lino Lacedelli, Kurt Diemberger, Alain Robert, John Muir, and Albert F. Mummery. After him are Andrew Irvine, Anatoli Boukreev, Krzysztof Wielicki, Jon Krakauer, Peter Habeler, and Fanny Bullock Workman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Lionel Terray ranks 158. Before him are Esther Williams, Raymond Williams, Amedeo Amadei, Jackie Stallone, Kocheril R. Narayanan, and Kisshomaru Ueshiba. After him are Jair da Rosa Pinto, Ilse Aichinger, Heinz G. Konsalik, Luis García Berlanga, Dinko Šakić, and Georges Mathieu. Among people deceased in 1965, Lionel Terray ranks 75. Before him are Corrado Gini, Harry Porter, Odile Defraye, Bertil Lindblad, George Adamski, and Ellen Church. After him are Roberto Cherro, Tito Schipa, Alfredo Guzzoni, Kōdō Sawaki, Louis Harold Gray, and Frederick, Prince of Hohenzollern.

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In France

Among people born in France, Lionel Terray ranks 2,725 out of 6,770. Before him are Benjamin Baillaud (1848), Arthur Saint-Léon (1821), Émile Littré (1801), Jeanne de Lestonnac (1556), William IX, Count of Poitiers (1153), and Jules Favre (1809). After him are Alexis Korner (1928), Corbinian (670), Pierre Woodman (1963), Nicholas Romanov, Prince of Russia (1922), Jean-Daniel Cadinot (1944), and Gershom ben Judah (960).

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Among MOUNTAINEERS In France

Among mountaineers born in France, Lionel Terray ranks 4. Before him are Jacques Balmat (1762), Maurice Herzog (1919), and Alain Robert (1962).

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