On this day

Mountain history events that happened on 17 February

1. 1740 286 years ago

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   Horace-Bénédict de Saussure is born

   Geneva-born scientist and naturalist, who at the end of the 18th century played a decisive role in the birth of modern mountaineering and especially in the conquest of Mont Blanc. He was born in 1740 in Conches, near Geneva, to...

   

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   Massimo Martini

2. 1980 46 years ago

   Everest: first winter ascent

   

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   redazione