Nicolas Jaeger

ActorDirector Oct 20 (died age 33) Boulogne Billancourt, France 1978–2013 (35 year career)

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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 Austrian Kurt Diemberger, altitude cameraman. Son of photographer Janine Niépce and film producer Claude …