The first recorded ascent of Triglav was achieved in 1778, at the initiative of the industrialist and polymath Sigmund Zois. According to the most commonly cited report, published in the newspaper "Illyrisches Blatt" in 1821 by the historian and geographer Johann Richter, these were the surgeon Lovrenz Willomitzer (written as "Willonitzer" by Richter), the chamois hunter Štefan Rožič, and the miners Luka Korošec and Matevž Kos. According to a report by Belsazar Hacquet in his "Oryctographia Carniolica", this happened towards the end of 1778, by two chamois hunters, one of them being Luka Korošec, and one of his former students, whose name is not mentioned.