Who is the founder of modern mountaineering?

Modern mountaineering originated in the Alps on the European continent, where many traditional customs and true stories with local ethnic characteristics and close ties with the Alps are circulated.

"Mountain Rose"

"Alpine Rose" is a perennial herb growing in the Alps. It is about 5 or 6 inches tall and covered with fluff. Its flowers, stems and leaves are yellow-green. This kind of wild flower can only be found in sunny slopes and rock crevices above 2000 meters above sea level in Alps. In order to show their love and loyalty to their beloved girls, local young people often risk their lives to climb mountains and pick them (so this wild flower is also called "the flower of happiness and love"). Gradually formed the tradition of alpine residents climbing mountains. People have gradually accumulated all kinds of mountaineering experience and mastered the techniques of climbing all kinds of rocks and slopes and identifying all kinds of mountain hazards. Since then, mountaineering has gradually developed into a sport that everyone likes.

Chamonix Village and "Alpine Movement"

The Alps are the largest mountain range in western Europe. It spans France, Italy, Switzerland, Austria and other countries, and its branches extend to Germany, Hungary and Yugoslavia. Its highest peak, Mont Blanc, is located in France, near the border between Italy and Switzerland, with an altitude of 4,807 meters, which is the highest point in Western Europe. Near Mont Blanc, there is a unique Chamonix needle peak in the Alps. There is a small mountain city under the peaks, which is the birthplace of modern mountaineering-Chamonix.

1760 One morning in May, a Swiss scientist, De Saussure, posted a notice at the entrance of Chamonix village: "Anyone who can climb or provide a route to the top of Mont Blanc will get a large bonus." Twenty-six years after the notice was posted, Jie vaccaro, a village doctor in Chamonix village, took it down. He and Balma, who excavated crystal stones, set off for Mont Blanc on August 6th, 786, and climbed Mont Blanc, the highest peak in western Europe, for the first time in human history on the afternoon of August 8th.

Then Saussure and a group of 19 scientific friends climbed the top of Mont Blanc again on1August 3, 987 1 1, which opened the curtain of modern mountaineering. Later, people called mountaineering "alpine sport" and regarded Suoxiuer, Vaccaro and Balma as the founders of mountaineering in the world.