Charles Fellows with William Hawes, plants a baton on the summit of Mont Blanc, 1827. Artist: WS Hastings

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Charles Fellows with William Hawes, plants a baton on the summit of Mont Blanc, 1827. Included as an insert in A Narrative of an Ascent to the Summit of Mont Blanc by Charles Fellows. Fellows, who went on to become a distinguished archaeologist, Hawes and nine guides accomplished the fourteenth ascent of the mountain.

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