Honored mountain guides in 2006 : Charles Bozon

Named “Charlot” by his alpine ski team colleagues ... 

He won several Olympic medals during his alpine ski racing career: silver in Cortina d’Ampezzo in 1956, bronze and silver in Squaw Valley in 1960. 

2 years later in 1962, he became world ski champion as he raced in extremely stormy conditions at home in Les Bossons, a few steps away from the family household, in the Chamonix valley.

“Charlot” took part in an impressive rescue operation on the West face of Blaitière, one of the sheer granite faces over-looking Chamonix.

He died in 1964, during a tragic accident on Aiguille Verte. Mountaineering claimed the lives of his own father Anatole and his nephew Richard, who both disappeared in avalanches on guiding duty, in 1936 and 1995.