Jacques Balmat it turns out, possesses an extraordinary mountaineering sense, an unerring instinct for the crevasses and seracs of the glaciers ..." After the successful ascent, Balmat collected the reward offered 25 years before by Horace-Bénédict de Saussure to the first man who could climb Mont Blanc. On 3 August 1787 he assisted de Saussure himself to reach the summit with a party of about 17 people. During the Napoleonic Wars, Savoy fell under French control, and Citizen Jacques Balmat became a member of the council of the commune. He led an unsuccessful attempt to introduce Merino sheep into the Chamonix valley.
The Night Climbers of Oxford veiled version of the real-life Bullingdon Club. Christ Church Students Warned About Night Climbing, "The Cherwell", January 27 2018 Merton Street Shut After Corpus Boppers Take to the Roof, "The Cherwell", April 29 2017 Obituary, Hamish Nicol, "The Independent", 11 July 1997 'We're not heroes': An interview with the Night Climbers of Oxford, "The ISIS Magazine", June 07 2018 The Oxford Alpine Club 8 Things You Might Not Know about Oxford and Cambridge - Night Climbers The Night Climbers of Oxford The Night Climbers of Oxford is a secret society, dedicated to nocturnally scaling College and town Buildings in Oxford,