Erhard Loretan

From the ascent of all the 8000m peaks to being a Mountain Guide, a great interpreter of world mountaineering: Erhard Loretan.

On Thursday 28 April 2011 Swiss alpinist and mountain guide Erhard Loretan died in a climbing accident while ascending Grünhorn in the Bernse Alps. Loretan was one of the greatest alpinists of the modern era, the third person to have climbed all fourteen 8000m peaks and the second to do so without supplementary oxygen.