Gaston Rébuffat, a Chamonix mountain guide and renowned French alpinist, was the first to climb all six of them, and his 1954 work, "Etoiles et Tempêtes" ("Starlight and Storm"), chronicles these climbs.
Gaston Rébuffat, a Chamonix mountain guide and renowned French alpinist, was the first to climb all six of these north faces. His 1954 work, "Etoiles et Tempêtes" ("Starlight and Storm"), chronicles these climbs.