Serge Gousseault

Serge Gousseault (May 12, 1947 in Tours, France - February 21, 1971, Mont-Blanc massif, France) was a French mountaineer, high mountain guide, who died of cold and exhaustion on the north face of the Grandes Jorasses. Serge Gousseault, who did his military service in the 27th Alpine Hunters Battalion in Annecy, had been awarded the third of his promotion for the mountain guide diploma and had registered, in particular, on his list: the Walker by the Cassin route in the Grandes Jorasses, the Gervasutti pillar, solo, races and climbs in the Pyrenees, the creeks of Marseille and the Verdon gorges. In the 1960s, until his death, Serge Gousseault was part of the local EEDF group in Tours. It was during the ascent of the direct route from Pointe Walker (4,208 m) via the north face of the Grandes Jorasses in the Mont-Blanc massif that he died. A first winter attempt in duet with the experienced guide René Desmaison. Blocked in their ascent by bad weather, out of food, Serge Gousseault's han...