WRITER

Gaston Rébuffat

1921 - 1985

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Gaston Rébuffat (French pronunciation: [ɡastɔ̃ ʁebyfa]; 7 May 1921, Marseille – 31 May 1985, Paris) was a French alpinist, mountain guide, and author. He is well known as a member of the first expedition to summit Annapurna 1 in 1950 and the first man to climb all six of the great north faces of the Alps. In 1984, he was made an officer in the French Legion of Honour for his service as a mountaineering instructor for the French military. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gaston Rébuffat has received more than 93,366 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Gaston Rébuffat is the 3,676th most popular writer (down from 3,098th in 2019), the 3,672nd most popular biography from France (down from 3,152nd in 2019) and the 466th most popular French Writer.

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Notable Works

Entre terre et ciel
Matterhorn, Mont Blanc, Mountaineering
1965
Étoiles et tempêtes
Description and travel, Mountaineering, Alps, description and travel
1956
Cervin, cime exemplaire
Mountaineering, Matterhorn
1967
Starlight and Storm
1957
Massif du Mont Blanc
Guidebooks, Mountaineering
1975
Mont Blanc Massif
1975
Étoiles et tempêtes
Description and travel, Mountaineering, Alps, description and travel
1956
Massif du Mont Blanc
Guidebooks, Mountaineering
1975
Cervin, cime exemplaire
Mountaineering, Matterhorn
1967
Starlight and Storm
1957
Mont Blanc Massif
1975
Entre terre et ciel
Matterhorn, Mont Blanc, Mountaineering
1965

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Gaston Rébuffat ranks 3,676 out of 7,302. Before him are Alexander Bestuzhev, Robert Jungk, Duchess Agnes of Württemberg, John Flanagan, Helen Churchill Candee, and Gyula Krúdy. After him are William Robertson Smith, Milán Füst, René Huyghe, Berdi Kerbabayev, Nichita Stănescu, and Viktor Nekrasov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Gaston Rébuffat ranks 223. Before him are Henri Alleg, Brian Keith, Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow, Jean Robic, Kathleen Antonelli, and Kazimierz Górski. After him are Gunnar Eriksson, Sune Andersson, Imre Kovács, Archduchess Charlotte of Austria, Inge Borkh, and Bengt Danielsson. Among people deceased in 1985, Gaston Rébuffat ranks 125. Before him are Ernest Nagel, Henry Hansen, Sanjeev Kumar, Margaret Hamilton, Penn Nouth, and Helene Engelmann. After him are Vladimir Kokkinaki, George Raynor, Harald Cramér, Brian Horrocks, John G. Trump, and Benjamin Markarian.

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In France

Among people born in France, Gaston Rébuffat ranks 3,672 out of 6,770. Before him are Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély (1817), François Bordes (1919), Theo Hernandez (1997), Noël Édouard, vicomte de Curières de Castelnau (1851), Guy Ropartz (1864), and Claude Fleury (1640). After him are Charles Duclerc (1812), Eugène Belgrand (1810), René Huyghe (1906), Félix Tisserand (1845), Georges Urbain (1872), and Étienne Mattler (1905).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Gaston Rébuffat ranks 466. Before him are Marcel Prévost (1862), Marc Levy (1961), Madeleine de Souvré, marquise de Sablé (1599), Nicholas Rémy (1530), François de La Mothe Le Vayer (1588), and Guillaume Musso (1974). After him are René Huyghe (1906), Albert Aurier (1865), Christiane Rochefort (1917), Jules Lemaître (1853), Jules Janin (1804), and Théophile Thoré-Bürger (1807).

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