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.