Lionel Terray and Jean Couzy become the first people to reach the summit of Makalu, the fifth-highest mountain in the world

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15 May 1955

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27.88° N, 87.08° E

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Lionel Terray and Jean Couzy become the first people to reach the summit of Makalu, the fifth-highest mountain in the world, on the 1955 French Makalu expedition. The entire team of climbers reaches the summit over the next two days.

First ascent of fifth-highest mountain in the world

The 1955 French Makalu expedition was the first to successfully climb Makalu, the Himalayan mountain 12 miles (19 km) to the southeast of Mount Everest, on the border between Nepal and Tibet. At 8,485 metres (27,838 ft) Makalu is the fifth-highest mountain in the world and an eight-thousander.

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