Jacques Poincenot

white), in which the ascent of the Eiffel Tower is filmed by the same group of mountaineers who had climbed the Grandes Jorasses. The film won the Louis Lumière prize in 19484 and was rewarded at the Venice Biennale. Participating in the French expedition of 1951-1952 for the conquest of Fitz Roy with in particular Lionel Terray, Guido Magnone and Marc Antonin Azéma (who wrote the story), he died during the long access march, by drowning in the río Fitz Roy, then in flood. He is buried in the cemetery of Puerto Santa Cruz.

To honor his memory, his name was given to a peak close to Fitz Roy, the Poincenot needle (3,002 m, in Spanish: Aguja Poincenot). The base camp for access to Fitz Roy and nearby hikes also bears his name. In Fontainebleau, a boulder passage bears his name in the Trois Pignons forest (southern part of the Bellifontain complex). At the very famous site of 95.2, on the white circuit, La Poincenot, rating 6c.