Patrick Gabarrou is a French mountaineer, mountain guide and lecturer born on July 19, 1951 in Évreux. French ski-mountaineering champion in 1989, Patrick Gabarrou is first and foremost a high-level glacier climber, even though he has taken part in a number of high-difficulty rock climbs. He is one of the most active forerunners of his generation: 300 firsts, including fifteen on the prestigious Mont Blanc. He is also the author of several routes in the very difficult north face of the Grandes Jorasses, but also in less known massifs such as the Argentera massif. Patrick Gabarrou has also climbed summits in Bolivia, Alaska, Canada, Patagonia and in the Himalayas (Everest as well as the Unnamed Peak at 7,900 meters).