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Google Memorializes First Ascent to Mont Blanc
On 8 August 1786 Jacques Balmat along with Doctor Michel Paccard, both from Chamonix, did the first ever recorded ascent to Mont Blanc. Google memorializes the 229th anniversary of the historic climb to the "White Mountain" by a frosty google doodle.
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Two More Mont Blanc Deaths Amid Fears of Tourist Free-For-All
Two Irish mountaineers have died on Mont Blanc, bringing to four those killed there in just three days as concern mounts that the mountain range is becoming a tourism free-for-all.
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Nine dead, four missing in French Alps avalanche
Nine mountain climbers were killed in an avalanche near Chamonix in the French Alps on Thursday and rescue workers were searching for four others still missing, authorities said. The most deadly avalanche in the Alps since 2008 swept down a popular climbing route in the Mont Blanc range near the border with Switzerland at about 0300 GMT.
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Google Memorializes First Ascent to Mont Blanc
On 8 August 1786 Jacques Balmat along with Doctor Michel Paccard, both from Chamonix, did the first ever recorded ascent to Mont Blanc. Google memorializes the 229th anniversary of the historic climb to the "White Mountain" by a frosty google doodle.
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Two More Mont Blanc Deaths Amid Fears of Tourist Free-For-All
Two Irish mountaineers have died on Mont Blanc, bringing to four those killed there in just three days as concern mounts that the mountain range is becoming a tourism free-for-all.
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Nine dead, four missing in French Alps avalanche
Nine mountain climbers were killed in an avalanche near Chamonix in the French Alps on Thursday and rescue workers were searching for four others still missing, authorities said. The most deadly avalanche in the Alps since 2008 swept down a popular climbing route in the Mont Blanc range near the border with Switzerland at about 0300 GMT.
