Jorge CHAVEZ DARTNELL says "Geo Chavez" is a Franco-Peruvian aviator born on June 13, 1887 and died on September 27, 1910. Chavez establishes on September 8 an altitude record (2682m) in Issy les Moulineaux. On 23 September he took off from Brig at the controls of a monoplane Blériot type XI of 50 horsespower (called Gypaete) crossed the Simplon Pass and was the first to cross the dam of the Alps through the air. After 42 minutes of flight he crashed south of Domodossola in Italy He died repeating: arriba, siempre arriba (Plus haut, toujours plus haut).
This phrase became his epitaph and the motto of his country's military aviation.