It was no coincidence that Erhard Loretan, who has died in a fall aged 52, should have been working in the mountains on his birthday. For Loretan, any time spent among them was a gift. Whenever he ...

On Thursday 28 April 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 ...

GENEVA – Famed Swiss mountain guide Erhard Loretan, one of the few climbers to ever reach the summits of all 14 of the world's peaks above 8,000 meters, has died in a climbing fall on his 52nd ...

When Erhard Loretan, Switzerland's greatest Himalayan climber, fell to his death in April, many were puzzled. How could someone who raced up Everest's north face without oxygen perish on a modest ...

On April 28, Erhard Loretan had just turned 52 and to celebrate he and Xenia Minder, his partner for two years, decided to climb Grunhorn in his native Swiss Alps. For Loretan, famed for a ...

When Erhard Loretan and his fellow Swiss climber Jean Triollet reached their advance base camp at 5,850m on the Rongbuk glacier, Tibet, late on 30 August 1986 they had set a new standard in extreme ...

Swiss mountain guide Erhard Loretan, one of the few climbers to ever reach the summits of all 14 of the world's peaks above 8,000 metres, has died in a climbing fall on his 52nd birthday. Swiss police ...

In the footsteps of Erhard Loretan and André Georges and their Imperial Crown, the great winter enchainment of 38 peaks in Switzerland’s Valais Alps, of which 30 are over 4000 meters, completed in ...

ERHARD Loretan lived for mountains. One of the few climbers ever to reach the summits of all 14 of the world's peaks above 8000m, he died the way he had lived almost all his life - clambering up the ...

He was only the third mountaineer in history to scale the 14 Himalayan peaks above 8,000 metres (26,240ft), which include Mount Everest, Annapurna and K2. The feat took him 14 years, and he completed ...