Roger Joseph Fernand Frison-Roche, born February 10, 1906 in Paris 8th comes from a Savoyard family living in Paris. He studied at the Chaptal high school in Paris, then left school and worked as a courier in the Thomas Cook travel agency at the age of 14. During the war, he made several trips to Beaufort which awakened his love of the mountains. In 1924, he was the secretary of the first Winter Olympics in Chamonix. He writes in the newspaper Le Savoyard de Paris. Between 1926 and 1927, he did his military service in Grenoble with the 93rd mountain artillery regiment. In 1923, at the age of 17, he moved to Chamonix and became secretary of the tourist office and the Olympic Committee, he made several climbs such as the Aiguille du Grépon or the Aiguille du Moine. In 1928, he made the winter premiere of the Aiguille de Bionnassay with Armand Charlet. In 1928, Frison-Roche met Marguerite…
