A Climber’s Autobiography<\/p>\n
On October 5, 1995, Erhard Loretan became the third person to climb all
\nfourteen 8000-meter peaks, and the second to climb them without supplemental
\noxygen. He also became one of only a handful of individuals to climb Everest
\nvia the Hornbein Couloir; he and Jean Troillet completed the roundtrip climb
\nin only 43 hours.<\/p>\n
An influential climber, Loretan’s story has never before been told in English.
\nHe writes with humour, often deprecating his own accomplishments, and he is
\nshockingly honest: On Cho Oyu, for instance, his climbing partner, Pierre-
\nAlain Steiner, fell hundreds of meters. Loretan called out to what he assumed
\nwould be a corpse. Unexpectedly, Steiner called back. Loretan writes, knowing
\nthat what he is about to share is terrible, that he felt no joy on hearing his
\nfriend’s voice because rescue was impossible in so remote a place.<\/p>\n
Erhard Loretan was a Swiss alpinist born in 1959. He made his first expedition
\nto the Andes in 1980 and began his conquest of the 8000ers in 1982 with the
\ndeadly Nanga Parbat. He died in a climbing accident in 2011.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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