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4 unusual facts about Claude Kogan


Claude Kogan

Nun Kun with Vittoz, a Moravian missionary to the Tibetans and an experienced alpinist

Following the war, the couple became members of the Groupe de Haute Montagne and climbed Chamonix, Dauphiné, the north face of the Dru and the south ridge of the Aiguille Noire de Peuterey.

Claudine van der Straten-Ponthoz

She and the leader of the expedition, Mme Claude Kogan, and two Sherpa porters perished in an avalanche.

Salcantay

Salcantay was first climbed in 1952 by a French-American expedition comprising Fred D. Ayres, David Michael, Jr., John C. Oberlin, W. V. Graham Matthews, Austen F. Riggs, George I. Bell, Claude Kogan, M. Bernard Pierre, and Jean Guillemin.



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