An extraordinary castle of rock and ice, Mont Blanc is one of the most striking natural monuments on Earth and provides mountaineers with a magnificent adventure ground. Starting in 1786 with the first ascent to the summit and continuing for two more centuries with the exploits of people such as Edward Whymper, Armand Charlet, Riccardo Cassin, Walter Bonatti and Christophe Profit, the mountaineering history of Mont Blanc is relived, page after page, in the words and the splendid photographs of this book. Awesome spectacles of nature, the peaks of rock and ice that rise above 4000 metres - Grandes Jorasse, Aiguille Verte, Mont Blanc and the granite towers of Dru, Grand Capucin and Grépon have history of testing mountaineers to the limit.