
René Desmaison
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Biography
René Desmaison, born April 14, 1930 in Bourdeilles (Dordogne) and died September 28, 2007 in Marseille, was a French mountaineer. A high-level mountain guide and climber, René Desmaison, from the mid-1950s and for over 30 years, completed numerous first ascents of great difficulty in the Alps, the Himalayas, and the Andes. A highly publicized mountaineer, he was involved in several controversies. Upon the death of his mother, the young René Desmaison, who was not yet 14, left Marsac near Périgu…
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Champs-Elysées
1982
Self

Stars at Noon
1959
Self

Les Conquérants de l'impossible - Portrait de René Desmaison
1985
Self

Eric Escoffier, la Fureur de Vivre
2019
Self (archive footage)

When the Mountaineers Make Their Cinema
2000
Self

Gary Hemming, le beatnik des cimes
1996
Self

Chamonix - Mont Blanc, Une histoire de conquêtes
2015
Self (archive footage)

Jannu, Chronicle of a Conquest
1962
Self

Victories on the Himalayas
1960
Self

Les Coulisses De L'Exploit
Self

The Climbers
1992
Self

Bergwelten
2012
Self (archive footage)
