Serge Gousseault

Biography

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 gorge…