Expedition participant in 1952

René Aubert 1908 – 1981

In a long and loyal partnership with Raymond Lambert and René Dittert, this lightly-built, wiry mountaineer tackled all the well-known names in the Western Alps. He and Léon Flory stepped back on the south-west ridge of Everest in favour of the Lambert-Tensing rope team, and waited on the South Col for their two colleagues to return.