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BLANC, MONT , the culminating point (15,782 ft.) of the See also:mountain range of the same name, which forms See also:part of the Pennine See also:Alps, and is divided unequally between See also:France, See also:Italy and See also:Switzerland. The actual highest See also:summit is wholly See also:French and is the loftiest See also:peak in the Alps, and in See also:Europe also, if certain peaks in the See also:Caucasus be excluded. At See also:Geneva the mountain was in former days named the Montagne Maudite, but the See also:present name seems to have been always used locally. On the See also:north is the valley of See also:Chamonix, and on the See also:east the See also:head of the valley of See also:Aosta. Among the See also:great glaciers which stream from the 'peak the most noteworthy are those of Bossons and Taconnaz (See also:northern slope) and of Brenva and Miage (See also:southern slope). The first ascent was made in 1786 by two Chamonix men, Jacques Balmat and Dr See also:Michel Paccard, and the second in 1787 by Balmat with two See also:local men. Later in 1787 H. B. de See also:Saussure made the third ascent, memorable in many respects, and was followed a See also:week later by See also:Colonel Beaufoy, the first Englishman to gain the' See also:top. These ascents were all made from Chamonix, which is still the usual starting point, though routes have been forced up the peak from nearly every See also:side, those on the See also:Italian side being much steeper than that from Chamonix. The ascent from Chamonix is now frequently made in summer (rarely in See also:winter also), but, owing to the great height of the mountain, the view is unsatisfactory, though very extensive (See also:Lyons is visible). There is an See also:inn at the Grands Mulcts (9909 ft.). In 1890 M.

Vallot built an See also:

observatory and shelter hut (14,312 ft.) on the Bosses du Dromadaire (north-See also:west See also:ridge of the mountain), and in 1893 T. J. C. See also:Janssen constructed an observatory just below the very summit. See C. Durier, Le Mont Blanc (4th ed., See also:Paris, 1897) ; C. E. See also:Mathews, The See also:Annals of Mont Blanc (See also:London. 1898) ; P. Gussfeldt, Der Montblanc (See also:Berlin, 1894, also a French See also:translation, Geneva, 1899); L. See also:Kurz, Climbers' See also:Guide to the See also:Chain of Mont Blanc, See also:section vi. (London, 1892) ; L.

Kurz and X. Imfeld, See also:

Carte de la chaine du Mont Blanc (1896, new edition 1905). (W. A. B.

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