Jean Couzy

Jean Couzy was a French mountaineer who lived from 9 July 1923 to 2 November 1958. He studied aeronautical engineering at the École Polytechnique and, at 27, was a member of Maurice Herzog's 1950 expedition to Annapurna. On the 1955 French Makalu expedition he made the first ascent of Makalu with Lionel Terray on 15 May 1955. In the Alps he made first ascents of routes including la Couzy on the Aiguille de l'M near Chamonix and a route on the north-west face of the Olan. He died in 1958 when a rock fall hit him on the crête des Bergers in the Dévoluy Mountains.