Pierre Gaspard (mountaineer)

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Pierre Gaspard
Pierre Gaspard
Personal information
Born(1834-03-27)27 March 1834
Saint-Christophe-en-Oisans, France
Died16 January 1915(1915-01-16) (aged 80)
Saint-Christophe-en-Oisans, France
Years active1876–1913
Sport
SportMountaineering

Pierre Gaspard (27 March 1834, in Saint-Christophe-en-Oisans – 16 January 1915, in Saint-Christophe-en-Oisans)[1][2] was a French mountain climber, one of the greatest mountain guides in the silver age of alpinism. He made the first ascent of La Meije (Massif des Écrins) on 16 August 1877 with his son and Emmanuel Boileau de Castelnau.[3] Their ascent followed the south buttress Arête du Promontoire, which became the "normal route".[4]

  1. ^ "Pierre Gaspard" (in French). bivouak.net. Retrieved 9 March 2013. This page incorrectly gives Gaspard's year of death as 1917.
  2. ^ Tissot, Janine. "Pierre GASPARD" (in French). Fédération Des Astrologues Francophones. Retrieved 9 March 2013.
  3. ^ Frison-Roche, Roger; Jouty, Sylvain (1996). A History of Mountain Climbing. Trans. Deke Dusinberre. Paris, New York: Flammarion. p. 319. ISBN 978-2-08-013622-0. LCCN 96-85980. OCLC 36019037.
  4. ^ "la Meije". Encyclopédie Larousse (in French). Larousse. Retrieved 20 February 2013.