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Autograph request
Postcard sent by Bray to Roger Frison-Roche on 4th September 1931 asking for his autograph.
Mr. Frison-Roche was born in Paris on Feb. 10, 1906. He left school early and in 1923 moved to Chamonix, where his parents had lived, to work in a travel agency and then as a mountain and ski guide. He later founded a rock-climbing and mountaineering school, and became known for organizing and winning races to the tops of mountains.
In 1932 he produced the first live radio program from the summit of Mont Blanc for Radio Lyon. He also wrote for newspapers about mountaineering, and in 1935 was sent to Algiers as a correspondent for La Depeche d'Alger. The assignment, and 17 expeditions into the Sahara, gave him material for his first book, ''The Call of the Hoggar.''
He was then asked to write a series for young people. The installments became ''First on the Rope.''
In 1942 he was a war correspondent in Tunisia, but the next year he left to join the Resistance. This experience gave him material for another novel, ''The Mountain Soldiers of the Night''(1968).
Roger Frison-Roche, writer and mountain guide: born Paris 10 February 1906; married (one daughter, and one son and one daughter deceased); died Chamonix, France 17 December 1999.
Sources: www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-roger-frison-roche-1133696.html and www.nytimes.com/1999/12/26/nyregion/roger-frison-roche-93-climber-and-writer-on-the-french-alps.html