One of the best mountaineers in the world in the 1940s & 50s.
– Record-setting speed ascents of most challenging peaks in Chamonix as a teenager.
– The youngest person to receive High Mountain Guide certification in the European Alps.
– Guided downed bomber pilots back to safety in the French Alps.
– War hero in World War II and leader of the French Resistance to the Nazis.
– Captured twice by the Nazis in WWII and escaped twice."After his first capture, the Gestapo imprisoned him in an "impenetrable" fortress, but Marillac got away by scaling a vertical prison wall just before he was to be executed by firing squads"
–French Congressional Medal of Honor from General Charles de Gaulle himself.
– Credited with convincing the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to bring the 8th Winter Olympics to Squaw Valley, California--Placer County
– Record-setting speed ascents of most challenging peaks in Chamonix as a teenager.
– The youngest person to receive High Mountain Guide certification in the European Alps.
– Guided downed bomber pilots back to safety in the French Alps.
– War hero in World War II and leader of the French Resistance to the Nazis.
– Captured twice by the Nazis in WWII and escaped twice."After his first capture, the Gestapo imprisoned him in an "impenetrable" fortress, but Marillac got away by scaling a vertical prison wall just before he was to be executed by firing squads"
–French Congressional Medal of Honor from General Charles de Gaulle himself.
– Credited with convincing the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to bring the 8th Winter Olympics to Squaw Valley, California--Placer County
One of the best mountaineers in the world in the 1940s & 50s.
– Record-setting speed ascents of most challenging peaks in Chamonix as a teenager.
– The youngest person to receive High Mountain Guide certification in the European Alps.
– Guided downed bomber pilots back to safety in the French Alps.
– War hero in World War II and leader of the French Resistance to the Nazis.
– Captured twice by the Nazis in WWII and escaped twice."After his first capture, the Gestapo imprisoned him in an "impenetrable" fortress, but Marillac got away by scaling a vertical prison wall just before he was to be executed by firing squads"
–French Congressional Medal of Honor from General Charles de Gaulle himself.
– Credited with convincing the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to bring the 8th Winter Olympics to Squaw Valley, California--Placer County
– Record-setting speed ascents of most challenging peaks in Chamonix as a teenager.
– The youngest person to receive High Mountain Guide certification in the European Alps.
– Guided downed bomber pilots back to safety in the French Alps.
– War hero in World War II and leader of the French Resistance to the Nazis.
– Captured twice by the Nazis in WWII and escaped twice."After his first capture, the Gestapo imprisoned him in an "impenetrable" fortress, but Marillac got away by scaling a vertical prison wall just before he was to be executed by firing squads"
–French Congressional Medal of Honor from General Charles de Gaulle himself.
– Credited with convincing the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to bring the 8th Winter Olympics to Squaw Valley, California--Placer County
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