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On July 24, 1760, a prize was offered for the first person to climb Mont Blanc. The date is celebrated by many as the birth of mountaineering, or at least Alpinism.
1. The prize was offered by Horace Bénédict de Saussure, praised by many as the first modern meteorologist and inventor of the solar oven.
2. Mont Blanc was first climbed in 1786 by Jacques Balmat and Michel-Gabriel Paccard.
3. The first woman to reach the summit, in 1808, was Marie Paradis, a maidservant in Chamonix.
4. On reaching the summit, she is said to have begged her companions to throw her into the nearest crevasse to end her exhaustion and misery.
5. According to an 1860 treaty which is still valid, the border line between France and Italy passes through the summit of Mont Blanc.
6. The Mont Blanc Tunnel under the mountain took eight years to build and was finished in 1965. It is more than seven miles long.
7. A Jacuzzi party was held at the summit in 2007 after 20 people carried a hot tub up there.
8. In 2013, Basque speed-climber Kilian Jornet climbed to the top and down again in 4hr 57min.
9. The first dog to climb Mont Blanc with its own paws was Tschingel from Switzerland in 1875.
10. Over 30,000 people try to climb Mont Blanc every year and more than 1,400 have died trying.
Source:
https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/top10facts/993294/mont-blanc-ten-facts-mountaineering
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e1309 discovered it
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Tirol, Austria
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Danke fürs Zeigen und die Möglichkeit zum Discovern.
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bbergfink placed it in PGS - Raststation Schnann
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bbergfink took it to Nepomuk an Sillbruggen
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bbergfink took it to Ornithologie etwas anders!
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bbergfink took it to Pestkapelle Pradl
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krossnik discovered it
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Viden na dogodku GC82CP3 - Tourennacht am Dreiländereck #05.
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MP2012 discovered it
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Discovered it @ Tourennacht #5 GC82CP3. Thank you for sharing.
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