Jacques Balmat (1762 to 1834), called Balmat du Mont Blanc, was a mountaineer and Savoyard mountain guide born in the Chamonix valley in Savoy, which was then part of the Kingdom of Sardinia. He is known for the first ascent of Mont Blanc, which he completed with the physician Michel-Gabriel Paccard on 8 August 1786, and for which King Victor Amadeus III gave him an honour. Before becoming a guide he was a hunter and a collector of crystals. In 1808 he guided Marie Paradis, a maidservant from Chamonix, on her ascent as the first woman to climb Mont Blanc.
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was a mountaineer, a Savoyard mountain guide, born in the Chamonix valley in Savoy
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