Lionel Terray

Lionel Terray

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 112,829 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Lionel Terray is the 23rd most popular mountaineer (down from 21st in 2019), the 2,469th most popular biography from France (up from 2,506th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular French Mountaineer.