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Nicolas Jaeger

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Nicolas Jaeger

Born October 20, 1946 · Boulogne Billancourt, France

Died April 28, 1980 · aged 33

Nicolas Jaeger, born in 1946 in Boulogne-Billancourt and died in 1980 in Lhotse, is a French doctor and mountaineer. He is the author of more than a hundred solo ascents in the Mont-Blanc massif and in the Andes, including many “first solos”. On October 15, 1978, he was one of the first French people to reach the summit of Everest, with Pierre Mazeaud and Jean Afanassieff accompanied by the Austri…

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Opération Survie Solitaire HuascaranOpération Survie Solitaire Huascaran · 1979
Opération Survie Solitaire Huascaran
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Nicolas Jaeger, a French physician specializing in sports and high-altitude physiology, conducted an experiment by spending two months on the highest peak in the Peruvian Andes, Huascarán. From July to September 1979, Nicolas Jaeger lived alone for 60 days at an altitude of 6,700 meters and studied the effects of hypoxia on his body. He documented his experience on film and later in his book, "Carnet De Solitude," published in 1979.

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