Michel-Gabriel Paccard (1757 to 1827) was a Savoyard medical doctor and alpinist, a citizen of the Kingdom of Sardinia. Born in Chamonix, he studied medicine in Turin, and his passion for botany and minerals brought him into contact with Horace-Bénédict de Saussure, who set off the race to be the first to ascend Mont Blanc. Paccard made a first, unsuccessful attempt in 1783 with Marc-Théodore Bourrit and further attempts in 1784. He is remembered for the first ascent of Mont Blanc, which he completed with the guide Jacques Balmat on 8 August 1786. Gaston Rébuffat described him as an excellent mountaineer who dreamed of carrying a barometer to the summit and taking a reading there.
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