Jean-Christophe Lafaille

Quick Facts

Full Name	Jean-Christophe Lafaille
Occupation	Mountain Guide
Date Of Birth	Mar 31, 1965(1965-03-31)
Age	59
Date Of Death	January 27, 2006, Makalu
Birthplace	Gap
Country	France
Birth City	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Horoscope	Aries

Jean-Christophe Lafaille Biography

Jean-Christophe Lafaille is one of the most popular and richest Mountain Guide who was born on March 31, 1965 in Gap, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.

Born in Gap, Hautes-Alpes, Lafaille’s background was in sport climbing, and as a teenager he climbed extensively at Céüse and played a part in turning it into one of the world’s best known climbing venues. In 1989 he became the first Frenchman to solo a climb graded 7c+, and one of the first to climb 8c graded routes.

In the early 1990s, Lafaille qualified as a mountain guide and began mountaineering in the Alps. He made a number of difficult ascents on the Mont Blanc massif, including the first solo climb of Divine Providence on the Grand Pilier d’Angle, one of the hardest routes on the massif.

Jean-Christophe Lafaille Net Worth

Jean-Christophe Lafaille is one of the richest Mountain Guide from France. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Jean- Christophe Lafaille 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Jean-Christophe Lafaille (31 March 1965 – 27 January 2006 [presumed]) was a French mountaineer noted for a number of difficult ascents in the Alps and Himalaya, and for what has been described as “perhaps the finest self-rescue ever performed in the Himalaya”, when he was forced to descend the mile-high south face of Annapurna alone with a broken arm, after his climbing partner had been killed in a fall. He climbed eleven of the fourteen eight-thousand- metre peaks, many of them alone or by previously unclimbed routes, but disappeared during a solo attempt to make the first winter ascent of Makalu, the world’s fifth highest mountain.

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By 2003 Lafaille had decided to try to climb all fourteen 8000-metre peaks; but unlike many of the mountaineers who take on this goal, he had no desire simply to climb them by well established routes, in large expeditions and with bottled oxygen. He preferred to continue trying to achieve new routes or solo ascents, or to climb in the more demanding winter season. In 2003 he climbed Nanga Parbat, Dhaulagiri (solo) and Broad Peak in a two-month period. The last of these nearly killed him when he fell into a crevasse and then developed high altitude pulmonary edema. He was rescued by Ed Viesturs and Denis Urubko.

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Jeong Ranked on the list of most popular Mountain Guide. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in France. Jean-Christophe Lafaille celebrates birthday on March 31 of every year.

Lafaille’s last climb was one of his boldest. In December 2005 he began a solo attempt to climb Makalu (8462m), the only 8000-metre peak in Nepal not to have seen a winter ascent. It was a goal which would have been considered suicidal a few years previously, but for Lafaille the danger was an important part of the experience. He commented