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Louis Lachenal is born

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Date: 17/07/1921

On 17 July 1921, Louis Lachenal was born in Annecy. He was a skilled mountaineer who, together with Maurice Herzog, became the first to reach the summit of an 8,000-metre peak: Annapurna, in 1950.

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