Mont Aiguille: first ascent
France
Jacques Balmat
Guide, crystal hunter and chamois hunter, co-protagonist of the first ascent of Mont Blanc in 1786.
Gaston Rébuffat
Michel Payot
René Desmaison
Born in 1930, he was at the end of the 1950s and throughout the following decade one of the greatest exponents of world mountaineering, according to some observers inferior to only Walter Bonatti. His mountaineering is the child of the technical evolution of the se...
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