World News | Edited by Bhagyashree Pandey | Tuesday August 11, 2015
On 8 August 1786 Jacques Balmat along with Doctor Michel Paccard, both from Chamonix, did the first ever recorded ascent to Mont Blanc. Google memorializes the 229th anniversary of the historic climb to the "White Mountain" by a frosty google doodle.
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