Monte Bianco

HardCover Pub Date: 2012 Pages: 386 in Publisher: White Star Publications With its nearly 5.000 m of altitude. its glaciers. its walls of red granite. Mont Blanc is one of the most spectacular natural monuments of the Old Continent. Begun during the Age of Enlightenment with the first attempts to climb the 4.810 m peak. the climbing history of this mountain continued with the ascent by Jacques Balmat and Michel-Gaiel Paccard to the top in 1786. It continued with the sagas of Edward Whymper and other great climbers of the mid-19th century. the adventures on rock and ice of the famous Italian. French. and Swiss guides during the years of the Belle poque. with the adventurous ascents without guides of the 20th century. with the extraordinary open itineraries over rock and ice during the period between the two World Wars. The 1930s saw the race to the last great walls by legenda...