François Langlois*
Carstensz
Canada · Male
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Peaks climbed
Carstensz Pyramid list (Messner)
* Estimated date, duration, or age: only the year (or year and month) was recorded; the exact day is unknown.
“Not known”: some summits on this record have no date, so this figure cannot be worked out.
≈ before a place or date: finish date not known. Some summits are undated, so we place the climber by the latest summit we can date; they finished on or after it.
Also confirmed ‡
- Kilimanjaro
- Elbrus
- Carstensz Pyramid
‡ These summits are confirmed as part of this climber's 7summits completion, but the exact dates are not yet on record. We are still researching the details.
Biography
François Langlois is a climber from Quebec who climbed the 7 summits over a decade to raise money for children's charities, among them the Fondation du Centre de cancérologie Charles-Bruneau, the Montreal Children's Hospital, Child Haven International and the Make-A-Wish Foundation. Born prematurely with underdeveloped lungs, he spent his first five weeks in an incubator.
He climbed Aconcagua in 2000, reached the summit of Everest in 2001 and finished on Vinson in December 2010. Years after Everest a benign tumour the size of a grapefruit was found on his left lung, which he had carried since birth and climbed with.
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