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Horace-Bénédict de Saussure

Geneva-born scientist and naturalist, who at the end of the 18th century played a decisive role in the birth of modern mountaineering and especially in the conquest of Mont Blanc. He was born in 1740 in Conches, near Geneva, to a family originally from...
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