first woman on Mont Blanc

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Who was the first woman to climb to the sommet of Mont Blanc?

-- zandra richard (zrichard73@hotmail.com), December 13, 1998

Answers

Henriette d'Angeville or someone named like that

-- Quang-Tuan Luong (luong@ai.sri.com), December 14, 1998.

false. It's marie paradis

-- j.j (i@i.com), July 26, 2001.

Miss Margaret King sister of Laura Harriet King in 1902.Mind you I'm not all that good at maths. F.E.D.

-- Frank E Davies (sufranels@btinternet.com), January 08, 2002.

I have found this item on the Internet

1799 Miss Parminter climbs in the Alps, summitting Mont Blanc, the first record of a woman climber.

-- Leslie Vye-Parminter (lvyeparminter@ntlworld.com), March 23, 2003.


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