Jacques Soubis

Jacques Soubis, born on 01/26/1928 in Clérac in Charente-Maritime (France) and died on 09/24/2016, is a renowned high-level mountaineer, opener of many routes and summits, but also a marathon runner and triathlete. Jacques Soubis was a dentist by profession. The call of the mountains was felt from the age of 20 (1948) by this student who was simultaneously studying dentistry and law. A dynamic and sympathetic priest had brought him to the bell tower of Aragnouet (Hautes-Pyrénées) to carry out a memorable abseiling before making him practice climbing on the cliff of Cenon as a tri-weekly training. The discovery of the impressive northern slope of Vignemale was then a determining moment which encouraged the young man to climb it immediately and without too many problems. He joined the French Alpine Club of Bordeaux and tackled the difficult slopes of the Pyrenees but also those of the Alps. In 1951, dental studies completed, the young mountaineer joined the EHM (High Mountain School) to do his military service there, until the fall of 1952. Then, for 35 years, all the great French mountains, but also worlds, were the object of his conquest.