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Posted: **Mon Aug 08, 2011 2:09 pm**

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

Posted: **Mon Aug 08, 2011 6:07 pm**

really ???
wasn't Dow the first on Mont Blanc summit ???

Posted: **Mon Aug 08, 2011 7:19 pm**

Mont Blanc is in Germany, isn't it?

Posted: **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?

Posted: **Tue Aug 09, 2011 6:43 am**

It's the square of the sixth semiprime number.

Posted: **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.

Posted: **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!

225 Years ago today