ASCENT OF MONT BLANC.
The Journal dc Geneve relates that an Englishman has just accomplished the ascent of Mont Blanc at a time oi the year when no tourist had ever ventured on the attempt. Mr Kennedy, member of the English Alpine Club, set out from Chamounix on the 15th May, accompanied by two guides, and reached the Grands-Mulets at four in the afternoon. The following day the party started at three in the morning for the summit, and after contending with the difficulties of the snow ? giving way under their feet, and of a burning sun, they arrived at the Grand Plateau. From that period the surface was firmer, so that they were enabled to attain the highest point towards noon ; and there the travellers planted an alpenstock and drank a bottle of champagne " in honour of the tourist world, past, present, and to come." Owing to the intense heat the descent was difficult, but it was safely effected at eight in the evening.
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Globe, Volume IV, Issue 352, 29 July 1875, Page 3
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165ASCENT OF MONT BLANC. Globe, Volume IV, Issue 352, 29 July 1875, Page 3
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