Identify both the chaps .
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Horace – Benedict de Saussure , the founder of alpinism , and Jacques Balmat , the first man to scale Mont Blanc . The monument is located at Chamonix .
As is the usual norm on this blog these days with reference to exclusive cracks , this one too shall be filed under the name Appu . Super stuff ( and memory ) !
Sir George Everest? and…?
edmund hillary and tenzing norgay
Balmat and de Saussure at Chamonix.
Wow, names I read reverently about as a kid, and had totally forgotten till today.
tenzing norgay and edmund hillary??
Hey, I didnt remember the names!
Just that they were Alpine pioneers. Google did the rest.