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...

people with the surname include: Gaston Rébuffat (1921–1985), French alpinist, mountain guide, and author René Rebuffat (1930–2019), French historian and...

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...

French Annapurna expedition led by Herzog (including Lionel Terray, Gaston Rébuffat, Marcel Ichac, Jean Couzy, Marcel Schatz, Jacques Oudot, Francis de...

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...

Kurt Diemberger, Marcus Schmuck, Heinrich Harrer, Walter Bonatti and Gaston Rébuffat.[citation needed] He was also an idol and hero of climbers of younger...

(1839–1903), French writer Gastón Ramírez (born 1990), Uruguayan footballer Gaston Rébuffat (1921–1985), French alpinist Gaston Salmon (1878–1917), Belgian...

pioneers included Walter Bonatti, Riccardo Cassin, Hermann Buhl, and Gaston Rébuffat, who were followed by and Reinhold Messner and Doug Scott, and later...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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:...

ranges in Asia. Members of the expedition included Louis Lachenal, Gaston Rébuffat, and Lionel Terray, then regarded as some of the finest mountaineers...

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...

massif des ecrins - les 100 plus belles courses et randonnées, by Gaston Rebuffat "Massif des Ecrins". peaklist.org. Retrieved 15 May 2020. "Roche de...

1983 – Jack Dempsey, American boxer and lieutenant (b. 1895) 1985 – Gaston Rébuffat, French mountaineer and author (b. 1921) 1986 – Jane Frank, American...

on the descent with one sleeping bag for four climbers (Lachenal, Gaston Rébuffat, Lionel Terray, and Herzog) resulted in severe frostbite, with consequent...

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...

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...

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...

explorer, aviator Pytheas (4th century BC) - astronomer, explorer Gaston Rébuffat (7 May 1921; d. Paris, 31 May 1985) - Alpinist Jean-Noël Savelli (26...

flowers Color image (Bruce Baumann) 70 Mountain climber Color image (Gaston Rébuffat) 71 Gymnast (Cathy Rigby) Color image (Philip Leonian, Sports Illustrated)...

include such climbing luminaries as Lionel Terray, Louis Lachenal and Gaston Rébuffat. See Annapurna by Maurice Herzog, pub. E P Dutton & Co.|date=1952 Ichac...

MacNorrin) (as translator, with John Hunt) Starlight and Storm by Gaston Rébuffat, Kaye, 1968 The "Wilfrid Noyce Community Centre" in Godalming, Surrey...

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...

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;...

26 April – François Picard, motor racing driver (died 1996) 7 May – Gaston Rébuffat, alpinist and mountain guide (died 1985) 19 May – Daniel Gélin, actor...

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...

Honoree Year Awarded Gaston Rébuffat 1996 Frantz Reichel 1994 Thierry Rey 2013 Philippe Riboud 2007 Georges Rigal 1995 Antoine Rigaudeau 2017 Elizabeth...