The story behind the world’s first ascent of Mont Blanc – Europe’s highest peak and arguably its most famous mountain – reads like the perfect script for a Hollywood blockbuster movie. The kind with opening credits that read “based on a true story”.
COURAGE AND CURIOSITY
ike many great adventures of our time, whether fact or fiction, the expedition to scale Mont Blanc began with the prospect of cash. In the late 18th century, a distinguished nobleman from Geneva named Horace Bénédict de Saussure had offered a large sum of money to anyone who could find a way up to the top of the mountain.
