Mont Blanc: Discovery and Conquest of the Giant of the Alps (High Altitude)

An extraordinary castle of rock and ice, Mont Blanc is one of the most striking natural monuments on Earth and provides mountaineers with a magnificent adventure ground. Started in 1786 with the first ascent to the summit and continued for two more centuries with the exploits of people such as Edward Whymper, Armand Charlet, Riccardo Cassin, Walter Bonatti and Christophe Profit, the mountaineering history of Mont Blanc is relived, page after page, in the words and the splendid photographs of this book. Grand spectacles of nature, the peaks of rock and ice that rise above 4000 metres - Grandes Jorasse, Aiguille Verte, Mont Blanc and the granite towers of Dru, Grand Capucin and Grépon - are also pages on which mountaineers and men have written some of their most fascinating tales.