Michel Paccard
Michel Gabriel Paccard (° 1757 - † 1827 with Chamonix). At that time Turin is the capital of the Savoy, Michel Paccard made his studies of medicine there. It is with its passion for botany and mineralogy that it owes its meeting with the scientist Horace-Bénédict de Saussure. This one, eager to calculate exact altitude of it, had launched as of 1760 the race to the Mont Blanc. Thus Paccard conceived the idea to reach the top the first. In 1783, it makes a first unfruitful attempt with Marc Theodore Bourrit. In 1784 it repeats several times with Pierre Balmat by the slope of the Tacul. But it is with Jacques Balmat, modest hunter of chamois and glass cutter, itself convinced to have found the way at the time of a preceding solitary attempt, one month earlier, by the Dôme of Tasting, which it reached the top the August 8th 1786 with 18:23.
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