Erhard Loretan

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Erhard Loretan (born 1959) is a Swiss mountain climber.

He was born in Bulle in the canton of Fribourg. He is trianed as a cabinet-maker (1979) and mountain guide (1981) and began his climbing career at the age of 11.

He is one of only 13 people 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 8000-foot peaks in 1982 with the deadly Nanga Parbat, the last of them to have been climbed for the first time. Thirteen years later, in 1995, he climbed the last of them, Kangchenjunga.

Peak	Year
Nanga Parbat	1982
Gasherbrum II	1983
Gasherbrum I	1983
Broad Peak	1983
Manaslu	1984
Annapurna	1984
K2	1985
Dhaulagiri	1985
Mount Everest	1986
Cho Oyu	1990
Shisha Pangma	1990
Makalu	1991
Lhotse	1994
Kangchenjunga	1995