The European alps are 1200 kilometers in length, stretching from France in the west to Slovenia in the east. Mont Blanc reaches 4 kilometers into the sky. In the 1760’s Swiss scientist Horace de Saussure (pronounced “or-ace deh seh-sur”) offered an enormous financial reward for whomever could climb Mont Blanc as de Saussure had tried multiple times without success. On August 7, 1786, Jacques Balmat (pronounced “zha-ack bal-mah”) claimed the cash reward by successfully climbing Mont Blanc. Balmat...
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