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that special, and certainly not worthy of national media attention back then. So I don't feel the claim in this article is that special either. I propose this claim (to be the youngest person ever) be removed from the article as its probably simply based on poor journalism. As just the youngest Briton, that might well be correct, but is it noteworthy? I don't think so, and so the claim should be removed entirely, I feel.
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Will editors stop trying to expand the lead of this article to include detailed information on who claims what bits of the summit. I feel this information is overly detailed for the lead, though I appreciate many are wanting to add clarity in good faith. There is a whole section on
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The only objective vision is to accept that there is two visions : one French and one
Italian. There is a Committee gathering both parts regularly to talk about this. But everybody knows that the watershed comes with doubts as the Mont Blanc is not a rocky summit or a ridge, but an icy summit. So the
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English climbing partner (who is now 72) took his young son up the Gouter route on Mont Blanc when the lad was 10 yrs old, and they subsequently did the Brenva together when the lad was 14. Although impressive, it was nothing
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What statements?!?!?!? What reliable resources?!?!!? Isn't 1832 Map of the
Kingdom of Sardinia reliable? Don't you like it? What about the Sardinian Atlas map of 1869? You also don't like it so that's not reliable? You don't like because you want to assert there is no territorial dispute? Maybe you
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For more than a year, the article has claimed that Mont Blanc is the second-highest mountain in Europe. By what definition is this correct? I can't see that this is an established fact, in fact, well-known mountaineering lists such as
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