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.
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,