Jean Troillet was born 10 March 1948 at Orsieres and lives at La Fouly in Valais.
Of Swiss and Canadian nationality he obtained his mountain guide qualifications in 1969. He has conquered ten peaks of more than 8000 metres, all climbed in the Alpine style, and without oxygen.
Jean Troillet climbed Everest in 1986. In 1997 he was the first man to descend from the roof of the world on a snowboard.
Mountain guide, and seafarer, he was the shipmate of Laurent Bourgnon onboard Primagaz.
Photographer for Animan and heli-skiing guide.
Jean Troillet holds the speed record for the ascent of Everest by the North Face.: 43 hours there and back.
He holds many other records.
The 8000 Metre Peaks of Jean Troillet
K2, 8611 m.
Dhaulagiri, 8167 m.
Everest, 8848 m.
Cho Oyu, 8201 m.
Shisha Pangma, 8046 m.
Makalu, 8463 m.
Lhotse, 8516 m.
Kangchenjunga, 8586 m.
Gasherbrum I, 8068 m.
Gasherbrum II, 8035 m.
The 4 of September, David Lama, Stephan Siegrist and Denis Burdet rise to Kashmir Himalaya to make a new route in this area which was forbidden to travel and climb during a time because of war problems.
Goal
The Cerro Kishtwar is 6200m High and is located at the far north of India in The Kashmir near of Zanskar and Ladakh. This arrow shaped summit remembers us the Arwa Tower, our goal of 2006. After a travel and approach of 2 weeks we would be at the base of this 1000m north wall. With help of portaledge (hanging tents) we'll try a new route with all aspect of an unknown itinerary.
History
The face was already tried in 1991 by Andy Parkin, and Brendan Murphy who after an incredible 17 days ascent were forced to turn back only 100m away from summit. In 1993, Mike Fowler was successful following a logical Snow and Ice ramp in the face. Since nobody tried this mountain.
150 years of Mammut
This expedition is included in the "150 peak project" of Mammut
http://www.mammut.ch/150years.html
Rob Frost (USA) photograph, present in 2004 in our expedition in Thalay Sagar will follow us during the ascension and Stéphane Schlumpf (CH) cameraman, until the base of the wall. We'll try to make videos by ourselves in the wall.
It's easy to understand that all of that would be impossible without electricity. Without the help of Iland solar systems it would be impossible for us to Charge computers, cameras, videos which is an important part of the expedition. The fact that is so easy to mount and use will help us a lot
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