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Raymond Despiau

Raymond Despiau
Born in January 20th, 1935From Bagnères-de-Bigorre, France

Raymond Despiau Biography

Raymond Despiau, born January 20, 1935 in Bagnères-de-Bigorre, died October 6, 2013 in Collegats, La Pobla de Segur (Lérida, Spain), was a French pyreneist and mountaineer. Raymond Despiau is recognized as one of the great climbers of the mid-20th century. During his studies in Paris, in 1956, he practiced climbing in Fontainebleau. The following year, he tackled the high mountains in the Alps and completed major races such as the Aiguilles d'Argentière.

In 1959 he returned to Bagnères-de-Bigorre and worked as a technician at the Pic du Midi de Bigorre. He is one of the first to practice artificial climbing in the Pyrenees, often with makeshift means and achieves many firsts; From 1963 to 1967, he equipped the Ansabère spigolo route. In 1964, with Jean-Louis Ferrané, he opened the south-west route of the small peak of Ansabère, between.

.. He made first-rate ascents in the Alps (north face of the Eiger, Bonatti pillar of the Drus, direct from the Cima Canali in the Dolomites), but also in the Caucasus and the Hoggar in Algeria. In 1978, he will be part of the expedition to Everest led by Pierre Mazeaud, who, accompanied by a handful of experienced mountaineers, decides to undertake the ascent of the highest roof in the world, several nations have succeeded in the feat, except France.

Obsessed with this quest, the French will take with him a Pyrenean: the Bagnérais Raymond Despiau, then 43 years old. Le Bigourdan has a great business card: the north face of the Eiger, the Bonatti pillar at Les Drus, the direct Cima Canali in the Dolomites... Climbs performed both in winter and in summer, "demonstrating its strength of character “, underlines Pierre Mazeaud in his book Everest 78.

Engineer at the Pic du Midi Unsurprisingly, as a true lover of the mountains, it is as an engineer at the Pic du Midi observatory that Raymond Despiau works. "To see it, it looks like a rock", describes the leader of the expedition. With an imperturbable calm, the Bagnérais presents himself as a "balanced man", "taciturn", in love with classical music.

As proof, Pierre Mazeaud delivers in his account having heard Bach or Mozart at more than 5,000 meters above sea level. A program signed Raymond Despiau, on the base camp of Everest, just before fighting with the Khumbu icefall. 66 days of expedition, twenty sherpas, journalists present on site to relay the feat: this Everest 78 marked an entire generation.

The expedition will go to the end, on October 15, with only three Frenchmen: Pierre Mazeaud, Jean Afanassieff, Nicolas Jaeger and the Austrian cameraman Kurt Diemberger. Raymond Despiau, like others, preferred to give up and wait for the quartet to return. “A force of nature, however, this Pyrenean with many firsts, steeped in great qualities and above all a man of dedication, writes Pierre Mazeaud.

Often solitary, he is perhaps the one we know the least, but how enriching his conversation was. In 2013, while climbing in La Collegats (Spain), Raymond Despiau suffered a heart attack while practicing his passion. He was 78 years old. 78: like the year he started climbing Everest.

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