[DOC] [TLE] Horace-Bndict de Saussure - Wikipedia [PAR] Horace-Bndict de Saussure (17 February 1740  22 January 1799) was a 
Swiss geologist, physicist and Alpine traveller, often considered the founder of 
alpinism, and ... Saussure was born in a patrician family of Geneva. ... He offered 
a reward to the first man to reach the summit of Mont Blanc, at the time unscaled. [DOC] [TLE] Biography of Horace Benedict de Saussure | nitum [PAR] Sep 29, 2012 ... Horace-Benedict de Saussure was Swiss physicist, geologist, and early ... The 
Saussure family, whose fame has spread in Geneva, as it has abroad, ... feet [
4,807 m] the tallest peak in Europe) and determined he would climb to the ... 
Saussure offered prize money for the first ascent of Mont Blanc, but it was... [DOC] [TLE] mountain climbing - BADMINTON [PAR] The sport of mountain climbing, or mountaineering, can be traced back to 1760. 
That year Horace-Benedict de Saussure, a young scientist from Geneva, 
Switzerland, offered a prize to the first person who could climb to the summit of ... 
rapidly in popularity after 1850, and by 1900 the Alpine peaks had all been 
conquered. [DOC] [TLE] In Comlnemoration of the Bi-Centenary of the First ... - Alpine Journal [PAR] of Horace-Benedict de Saussure, also of Geneva. He had been ... Mont Blanc 
and as early as 1760, when he was only 20 years old, offered a prize to anyone... [DOC] [TLE] The great great grandfather of mountaineering  Mark Horrell [PAR] Feb 22, 2012 ... I was desperately anxious to see at close quarters the great Alpine summits ... 
The seeds had been sown a quarter of a century earlier in 1760, when Horace-
Benedict de Saussure, at the time ... by Mont Blanc that he offered a reward to the 
first person to climb it. ... Portrait of Horace Benedict de Saussure. [DOC] [TLE] Horace Benedict de Saussure facts, information, pictures ... [PAR] Get information, facts, and pictures about Horace Benedict de Saussure at ... 
Saussure' ancestors emigranted to Geneva from France and Italy to escape the ... 
In 1760 he made the first of a number of trips to Chamonix, on this occasion for 
the ... to climb Mont Blanc and to take an annual alpine tour) nevertheless 
remained... [DOC] [TLE]  2() -6 - MissyUSA Cafe [PAR] Jul 22, 2007 ... For the first two weeks, Michelle and her friends got their gear ready and learned 
the .... That year Horace-Benedict de Saussure, a young scientist from Geneva, 
Switzerland, offered a prize to the first person who could climb to the summit of ... 
after 1850, and by 1900 the Alpine peaks had all been climbed. [DOC] [TLE] The First Ascent of Mont Blanc - The MAN & Other Families [PAR] private correspondence of de Saussure and his friends and of tourists who .... the 
first ascent of Mont Blanc, and the readings of the barometer and ..... given in the 
entry in the Diary of Horace-Benedict de Saussure, F.R.S. for 22 August I786, ..... 
Saussure who in 1760 offered a prize for the discovery of a route, and to Marc-. [DOC] [TLE] A Cabinet in the Clouds: J.A. de Luc, H.B. de Saussure and the ... [PAR] Changing Perception of the High Alps, 1760-1810 .... The pioneers of this change 
were Horace-Benedict de Saussure and ... alpine aesthetics, Saussure and de 
Luc became the first to systematically ... Geneva. He had conquered the Alps' 
highest peak - or so history has ...... Moreover, the prize of their ventures was not. [DOC] [TLE] Mont Blanc : Climbing, Hiking & Mountaineering : SummitPost [PAR] Alpine 4000m Peaks ... Mont Blanc is a massif composed of many peaks and 
spires, each with their own ... Mont Blanc was first climbed was on August 8, 1786 
by Jacques Balmat and .... This hut can also be used to climb the Dme du 
Goter route. .... Horace Benedict de Saussure, aged twenty, journeyed on foot 
from his... [DOC] [TLE] chamonix - Hi Alpine [PAR] Chamonix first

Question: In 1760 Horace Benedict de Saussure of Geneva offered a prize to the first to scale this Alpine peak
Answer: Mont Blanc