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Mont Blanc

Mont Blanc
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About Mont Blanc

Mont Blanc is a mountain in the Alps, rising 4,807.3 m above sea level, located right at the Franco-Italian border. It is the highest mountain in Europe outside the Caucasus Mountains, the second-most prominent mountain in Europe, and the 11th most prominent mountain in the world.

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In 1852, there was a show on in London called the Ascent of Mont Blanc by a guy called Albert Smith, which was just a guy who'd climbed up Mont Blanc. That was it, but the show ran for six years on Piccadilly.

from No Such Thing As A Fourteen Humped Camel, 2021-10-08 at 00:34:32 ยท read transcript

Other times Mont Blanc came up

  1. Sex is better than Mont Blanc There was a guy called John Oljo and he climbed because he wanted to see a better reflection of the mountain in the lake So he thought he couldn't see it properly from the ground So he had to go to the top so they were to see it You know the lake was there if it was halfway up the mountain Strange isn't it and also can you really see the mountain reflection from a lake that's below you? Maybe you can't there was a guy called Comte Henri de Tilly Who climbed because he wanted to cheer himself up after a failed affair? There was a guy called Edward Boutal Wild Bram who climbed Mont Blanc because he had been told not to Cool. Wow.

    429: No Such Thing As Newsbite, 2022-06-02 ยท listen

  2. Is it the writing of? I think he's thinking, seeing all that beauty will help my poetry. I kind of think of that. Being inspired by amazing stuff. Because there is a Shelley poem called Mon Blanc, which is one of the worst Shelley poems in existence. Is it? What is he rhyme with Blanc? Blanc Monde. There was someone I knew had a tutor who, you know, an English literature tutor who said, poetry is better than sex, apart from Shelley's Montblanc, sex is better than Montblanc.

    No Such Thing As Newsbite, 2022-06-02 ยท listen

  3. There's a lot of reasons that people have climbed Mont Blanc in the past. This is from a book called Killing Dragons, The Conquest of the Alps by Fergus Fleming. In 1818, there was a Russian count called Mazewski, and he decided to climb to the top of Mont Blanc to improve his poetry skills. Oh. There's a guy called John Oljo who climbed to the top so he could see a better reflection of the mountain and the lake.

    394: No Such Thing As A Fourteen Humped Camel, 2021-10-08 ยท listen

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