Mont Blanc Massif: The 100 Finest Routes - Hardcover

Rebuffat, Gaston

9781898573036: Mont Blanc Massif: The 100 Finest Routes

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1898573034 ISBN 13: 9781898573036

Publisher: Baton Wicks Publications, 1996

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Classic routes on France's white mountain. Spectacular photos and detailed appendix.

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Review:

'This is a superbly handsome book and cannot fail to inspire both the accomplished alpinist and new hand alike.' --(Simon Richardson, Scottish Mountaineering Club Journal).

The nearest thing to pornography I've ever put on proud display in my living room: The Mont Blanc Massif: The hundred finest routes by the revered Gaston Rebuffat.' --(Tom Hutton, Footless Crow).

About the Author:

Gaston Rebuffat was born in Marseille, France in 1921 and died of cancer in Paris in 1985. He was one of the greatest French climbers in the mid-20th century. He began to climb aged 14 on his home crags, the soaring limestone cliffs at the Calenques along the Mediterranean shore and Mont Sainte-Victoire. Every summer he migrated north to climb in the Alps above Chamonix. Rebuffat became the first climber to ascend the six great north faces of the Alps. He was also a key member on the 1950 French expedition that climbed Annapurna, the first 8,000-metre peak ever climbed. Over his 50-year climbing career, he made over a thousand first ascents, including many in the Mont Blanc massif. Besides being a prolific climber, Gaston Rebuffat became a foremost mountaineering writer, despite having a very minimal formal education He wrote 20 books, wrote a regular climbing column for Le Monde newspaper, started his own publishing house in Geneva, and wrote and narrated several award-winning films.

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