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Alpinism is "invented"
In the interests of scientific discovery Genevan naturalist Horace Bénédict de Saussure offered a large reward to anyone who could find the way up Mont Blanc. On the 24th July he visited Chamouny and climbed up to the Brevent. -
The first ascent of Mont Blanc
Jaques Balmat & Michel Piccard -
First female ascent of Mont Blanc
Marie Paradis -
The first catastrophy
Just below the Grand Plateau an avalanche swept A group of five guides into a crevasse. Only two survived. Those that perished were discovered 41yrs later at the bottom of the Bossons Glacier. -
Chamonix guides company established
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The Alpine Club was founded
The Alpine Club was founded in London due to it's popularity amongst Britains "elite". -
The start of the Golden Age of Climbing
An English designer Edward Whymper and Michel
Croz a trainee guide, accomplished three 1st ascents in one week; The Col de Triolet, L'Aiguille de Treletete and the L'Aiguille d'Argentiere. He made a further half dozen first ascents in Europe and the Americas over the following 5 years -
Attempt at Aoraki
English climber W. S. Green, with Boss and Kaufmann, of Grindelwald, climbed to within 200 ft of the summit of Aoraki - Mount Cook by an approach from the Tasman Glacier -
Hermitage Built – Mt Cook Village
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the founding of the New Zealand Alpine Club
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Himalaya Exploration
Conway of Allington explored the Karakorum range Himalayas -
first ascent of Aoraki - Mount Cook
by three New Zealanders, Fyfe, Clarke,
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Tititea - Mt Aspiring
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Canterbury Mountaineering Club formed
with a membership base of around 27 adventurers -
Everest (8,850 m/29,035 ft)
Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay climbed via the south col. -
International Alpine Rescue Committee set up
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Everest without assistance
Italian mountaineer Reinhold Messner and Austrian climber Peter Habeler became the first to scale Everest without bottled oxygen. Two years later Messner returned to climb Everest completely alone and without oxygen.
