Isabelle Agresti

Biography

Isabelle Agresti is a French mountaineer and professor of classical literature who participated in high-altitude expeditions and is recognized for her commitment to promoting the place of women in the history of mountaineering. With her husband, Henri Agresti, they formed a high-level mountaineering team, conquering peaks in the Alps and around the world, achieving numerous firsts in the 1970s. They have four children, including Blaise Agresti, also a mountaineer and mountain advisor to the General Directorate of the Gendarmerie.

They traveled to Afghanistan twice, in 1966 with Polish troops, and in 1968 (the first all-French expedition), where they spent more than two months. Two months th...