France, Haute Savoie, Chamonix Mont Blanc, Alpine Museum collection, Muller François Aloys, 1787, Ascent of M, Saussure to Mont Blanc in 1787. Horace Benedict de Saussure is perhaps the first in 1760 to have looked at these mountains frozen by the cold under a scientific eye, From then on, the exploration of the massif was a challenge, but also a rigorous work of surveys, a year after the first ascent of Mont Blanc (August 8, 1786) by Jacques Balmat and Michel Paccard, the Genevan physicist and geologist attacked the summit and put up a tent on the roof of Europe, he measured the altitude and found 4,775 meters

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• Feature : Mont Blanc: at the heart of the international year of glacier preservation