Louis Neltner was a French geologist, director of the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines of Saint-Etienne from 1944 to 1971, a climber and an explorer. He was also part of the United Resistance Movements during WWII.
Neltner was born in Toulouse on July 9, 1903. He was a student of Pierre Termier at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines in Paris. He was a member of the first French expedition to the Himalayas (Karakoram) in 1936, led by Henry de Segogne, alongside Pierre Allain, Marcel Ichac, and Jean Carle.
Netlner died in Lyon on January 23, 1985.
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