A memorial of Jacques Balmat, one of the two first persons to reach the peak of Mont Blanc, erected in 1887 in central Chamonix. It is the most famous mountaineering memorial in the Alps, and it is popular to take photos of it with the mountain itself visible in the background. It took until 1986 until the second climber in the party, Michel-Gabriel Paccard got his own memorial which is at the bank of Arve.