Original: Jean Buridan climbed the mountain early in the fourteenth century ; Petrarch ( accompanied by his brother ) repeated the feat on April 26 , 1336 , and claimed to have been the first to climb the mountain since antiquity , which has been widely repeated since .
Simplified: Jean Buridan climbed the mountain early in the fourteenth century ; Petrarch repeated the feat on April 26 , 1336 , and claimed to have been the first to climb a mountain since antiquity , which has been widely repeated since .