Erhard Loretan tribute

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Erhard Loretan (28 April 1959 -- 28 April 2011) was a Swiss mountain climber.

Loretan was born in Bulle in the canton of Fribourg. He trained as a cabinet-maker (1979) and mountain guide (1981) and began
his climbing career at the age of 11. He died on his 52nd birthday while climbing the Grünhorn in the Swiss Alps.[1]

Loretan was the third person to have climbed all 14 eight-thousanders, a feat he accomplished at the age of 36. He made his first
expedition to the Andes in 1980 and began his conquest of the 8,000 metres (26,247 ft) peaks in 1982 with the deadly Nanga Parbat.
13 years later, in 1995, he climbed the last of them, Kangchenjunga. In 1986, together with Jean Troillet, Loretan made a revolutionary
ascent of Mount Everest in only 43 hours, climbing by night and without the use of supplementary oxygen.[1]

Loretan was convicted in 2003 of the manslaughter of his seven-month-old son, after shaking him for a short period of time to stop
him crying in late 2001.[1] He was given a four-month suspended sentence.[2] Publicity of the case raised awareness of the danger of
shaking children due to weak neck muscles.
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