225 Years ago today

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225 Years ago today

by Charles » Mon Aug 08, 2011 2:09 pm

First ascent of Mont Blanc by Jaques Balmat and Michel-Gabriel Paccard.

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Re: 225 Years ago today

by Gabriele Roth » Mon Aug 08, 2011 6:07 pm

really ???
wasn't Dow the first on Mont Blanc summit ???
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Re: 225 Years ago today

by brenta » Mon Aug 08, 2011 7:19 pm

Mont Blanc is in Germany, isn't it?

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Re: 225 Years ago today

by kamil » Mon Aug 08, 2011 7:40 pm

Don't you know it was called Weissspitze until Visentin invaded it and stuck a French flag on top?

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Re: 225 Years ago today

by brenta » Tue Aug 09, 2011 6:43 am

It's the square of the sixth semiprime number.

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Re: 225 Years ago today

by Charles » Tue Aug 09, 2011 11:36 am

borutbk wrote:What's so special about 225?

It´s a long time ago, when everything was still in black and white.

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Re: 225 Years ago today

by Hotoven » Fri Aug 12, 2011 3:13 pm

charles wrote:
borutbk wrote:What's so special about 225?

It´s a long time ago, when everything was still in black and white.


I always seem to forget about that! It must have made climbing so much harder!
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