Michel-Gabriel Paccard 1784, he made several attempts with Jacques Balmat before they made the first ascent of Mont Blanc together on 8 August 1786. Balmat and Paccard's ascent of Mont Blanc was a major accomplishment in the early history of mountaineering. C. Douglas Milner wrote "The ascent itself was magnificent; an amazing feat of endurance and sustained courage, carried through by these two men only, unroped and without ice axes, heavily burdened with scientific equipment and with long iron-pointed batons. The fortunate weather and a moon alone ensured their return alive." Eric Shipton wrote "Theirs was an astounding achievement of courage and
Ice hockey at the 1936 Winter Olympics – Rosters Boháč, Alois Cetkovský, Karel Hromádka, Drahomír Jirotka, Zdeněk Jirotka, Jan Košek, Oldřich Kučera, Josef Maleček, Jan Peka, Jaroslav Pušbauer, Jiří Tožička, Ladislav Troják, Walter Ulrich Philippe Boyard, Pierre Claret, Marcel Couttet, Michel Delesalle, Jean-Pierre Hagnauer, Albert Hassler, Jacques Lacarrière, Pierre Lorin, Jacques Morisson, Michel Paccard, Guy-Pierre Volpert Rudi Ball, Wilhelm Egginger, Werner George, Gustav Jaenecke, Karl Kögel, Alois Kuhn, Philipp Schenk, Herbert Schibukat, Georg Strobl, Paul Trautmann, Joachim von Bethmann-Hollweg, Toni Wiedemann Alexander Archer, Jimmy Borland, Edgar Brenchley, Jimmy Chappell, John Coward, Gordon Dailley, Gerry Davey, Carl Erhardt, Jimmy Foster, Jack Kilpatrick, Archibald Stinchcombe, Robert Wyman Miklós Barcza, István Csák,