Jean Couzy

Biography

Jean Couzy is a French mountaineer, born on July 9, 1923 in Nérac in Lot-et-Garonne and died on November 2, 1958 in Dévoluy. Amateur mountaineer, both absolute glacier and high-level climber, he participated in 1950 in the victorious expedition of the Annapurnas, the first 8,000 m in the history of mountaineering, and in 1955 he made the first ascent of Makalu (8,463 m), also in the Himalayas.

Jean Couzy was born in 1923 in Nérac in Lot-et-Garonne. As a teenager, he frequented the Pyrenees but his studies - he entered the École polytechnique with the promotion of 1942 - and the Second World War did not allow him to devote himself entirely to mountain activities. Settled in Paris for his stu...