Expedition participant in 1952

Léon Flory 1910 – 2000

Paymaster of the spring expedition and tireless pathfinder, Flory was the first to push forward over the threshold of the high cirque. It was left to him, together with his rope team-mate René Aubert, to climb up the south-west ridge of Everest, and to make the selfless gesture of handing the camp site on the ridge over to the Lambert-Tensing rope team.