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 trained 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 meter 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 |
