Jean Couzy

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 studies, he frequents the Parisian mountaineers and practices climbing in Fontainebleau and in the Saussois. There he meets Marcel Schatz who will become his climbing partner.