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In the interests of scientific discovery Genevan naturalist Horace Bénédict de Saussure offered a large reward to anyone who could find the way up Mont Blanc. On the 24th July he visited Chamouny and climbed up to the Brevent.
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Jaques Balmat & Michel Piccard
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Marie Paradis
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Just below the Grand Plateau an avalanche swept A group of five guides into a crevasse. Only two survived. Those that perished were discovered 41yrs later at the bottom of the Bossons Glacier.
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The Alpine Club was founded in London due to it's popularity amongst Britains "elite".
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An English designer Edward Whymper and Michel
Croz a trainee guide, accomplished three 1st ascents in one week; The Col de Triolet, L'Aiguille de Treletete and the L'Aiguille d'Argentiere. He made a further half dozen first ascents in Europe and the Americas over the following 5 years -
English climber W. S. Green, with Boss and Kaufmann, of Grindelwald, climbed to within 200 ft of the summit of Aoraki - Mount Cook by an approach from the Tasman Glacier
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Conway of Allington explored the Karakorum range Himalayas
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by three New Zealanders, Fyfe, Clarke,
and Graham, from the Hooker Glacier. -
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with a membership base of around 27 adventurers
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Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay climbed via the south col.
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Italian mountaineer Reinhold Messner and Austrian climber Peter Habeler became the first to scale Everest without bottled oxygen. Two years later Messner returned to climb Everest completely alone and without oxygen.
