Michel-Gabriel Paccard Michel-Gabriel Paccard Michel Gabriel Paccard (1757–1827) was a Savoyard doctor and alpinist, citizen of the Kingdom of Sardinia. Born in Chamonix, he studied medicine in Turin. Due to his passion for botany and minerals, he met Horace-Bénédict de Saussure, who initiated the race to be the first to ascend Mont Blanc. Gaston Rébuffat wrote "Like Saussure a devotee of the natural sciences, he has a dream: to carry a barometer to the summit and take a reading there. An excellent mountaineer, he has already made several attempts." Paccard had a first, unsuccessful, attempt in 1783 with Marc Theodore Bourrit. In
Deaf climbers climbs as well as accomplished them. These climbers are not as publicly known as hearing climbers are. Many professional climbers are sponsored by various companies such as The North Face, Mad Rock, and Patagonia to name a few, they are paid to climb as well as gain recognition with their accomplished climbs. There are two deaf climbers who reached the summit of Mount Rainier which is a 14,410 foot mountain. One of the climbers name is Alec Naiman from New York, and the other Paul Stefurak from Washington. They attempted and reached the summit alongside five blind climbers, a man