age of 64, Gaston Rébuffat died of cancer in Paris, France. The rock-climbing technique, the "Gaston", was named after him. A photo of Rébuffat atop the...
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people with the surname include: Gaston Rébuffat (1921–1985), French alpinist, mountain guide, and author René Rebuffat (1930–2019), French historian and...
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danger beyond its technical grades of V A0 60-degree slopes. 1938–1949. Gaston Rébuffat became the first alpinist to complete the six great north faces of...
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biography. Rébuffat had also prepared his own notes, and Françoise had kept his many letters to her during the expedition. Gaston Rébuffat: une vie pour...
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(1839–1903), French writer Gastón Ramírez (born 1990), Uruguayan footballer Gaston Rébuffat (1921–1985), French alpinist Gaston Salmon (1878–1917), Belgian...
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French Annapurna expedition led by Herzog (including Lionel Terray, Gaston Rébuffat, Marcel Ichac, Jean Couzy, Marcel Schatz, Jacques Oudot, Francis de...
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Saussure, who initiated the race to be the first to ascend Mont Blanc. Gaston Rébuffat wrote "Like Saussure a devotee of the natural sciences, he has a dream:...
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pioneers included Walter Bonatti, Riccardo Cassin, Hermann Buhl, and Gaston Rébuffat, who were followed by and Reinhold Messner and Doug Scott, and later...
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trilogy"). The first climber to have ascended all six north faces was Gaston Rébuffat, a French alpinist and mountain guide, who chronicled his feat in his...
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ground but on a route that all the guides believed to be impossible." Gaston Rébuffat praised Balmat's climbing abilities, describing him as "This man, robust...
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technique named after Gaston Rébuffat Gaston (seal), a brown fur seal that escaped from the Prague Zoo during the 2002 European floods Gaston College, a community...
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Glossary of climbing terms (redirect from Gaston (climbing))
friction against a hold by pressing outward toward the elbow. Named for Gaston Rébuffat. gate flutter The unwelcome action of the gate on a carabiner opening...
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Kurt Diemberger, Marcus Schmuck, Heinrich Harrer, Walter Bonatti and Gaston Rébuffat.[citation needed] He was also an idol and hero of climbers of younger...
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massif des ecrins - les 100 plus belles courses et randonnées, by Gaston Rebuffat "Massif des Ecrins". peaklist.org. Retrieved 15 May 2020. "Roche de...
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on the descent with one sleeping bag for four climbers (Lachenal, Gaston Rébuffat, Lionel Terray, and Herzog) resulted in severe frostbite, with consequent...
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the North Face; the strenuous but successful climb of Hermann Buhl, Gaston Rébuffat, and their seven companions in 1952; and the catastrophe of 1957, when...
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ranges in Asia. Members of the expedition included Louis Lachenal, Gaston Rébuffat, and Lionel Terray, then regarded as some of the finest mountaineers...
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which included climbing luminaries Lionel Terray, Louis Lachenal and Gaston Rébuffat. Ichac directed documentary films of French explorations during the...
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Spur of the Grandes Jorasses "...perhaps the finest in existence" Gaston Rébuffat. 1939 : David Brower and the rest of his Berkeley crew use four bolts...
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began June 23, 1958. The film was made on location in Switzerland with Gaston Rébuffat as the head of the mountain second unit photography. It was mostly...
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1983 – Jack Dempsey, American boxer and lieutenant (b. 1895) 1985 – Gaston Rébuffat, French mountaineer and author (b. 1921) 1986 – Jane Frank, American...
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1934) US, rock climber, first ascent of Diamond on Longs Peak (1960) Gaston Rébuffat (1921–1985) France, 1950 Annapurna expedition, first to climb all six...
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flowers Color image (Bruce Baumann) 70 Mountain climber Color image (Gaston Rébuffat) 71 Gymnast (Cathy Rigby) Color image (Philip Leonian, Sports Illustrated)...
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Cougourde, with the mountaineers Jean Grinda, Jean-Marie Morisset, Gaston Rébuffat and Maurice Baquet. In the Roya valley, the film La Fille sur le pont...
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explorer, aviator Pytheas (4th century BC) - astronomer, explorer Gaston Rébuffat (7 May 1921; d. Paris, 31 May 1985) - Alpinist Jean-Noël Savelli (26...
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MacNorrin) (as translator, with John Hunt) Starlight and Storm by Gaston Rébuffat, Kaye, 1968 The "Wilfrid Noyce Community Centre" in Godalming, Surrey...
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in 1891, made the first climb via the Freydane glacier. In 1944, Gaston Rébuffat was the first to climb the mountain from the north, accompanied by...
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which ascend the pinnacles of Planpraz made famous by the mountaineer Gaston Rébuffat. L'aiguille du Belvédère (2,965 meters), highest summit of the massif;...
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the 390m Rebuffat route (Grade V/V+), dating from 1948. The latter route is placed in 66th position by its first ascensionist, Gaston Rebuffat, in his...
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26 April – François Picard, motor racing driver (died 1996) 7 May – Gaston Rébuffat, alpinist and mountain guide (died 1985) 19 May – Daniel Gélin, actor...
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