2012 Event Australian daredevil Felix Baumgartner breaks the world record for human ascent by balloon by space diving 128,100 feet out of the Red Bull Stratos helium-filled balloon over Roswell, New Mexico 1980 Event Reinhold Messner of Italy is 1st to solo ascent Mount Everest 1970 Event 2 men begin ascent of south face of Annapurna I, highest final stage in a wall climb in world 1937 Event C Isherwood/WH Auden's "Ascent of F6," premieres in London 1911 Death Edward Whymper, English mountaineer (Ascent of Matterhorn), dies 1908 Event 1st ascent of Mount Erebus, Antarctica 1873 Event 1st ascent of Mount Whitney, California, 14,494' 1870 Event 1st ascent of Mount Rainier, Washington 1865 Event 1st ascent of Matterhorn 1837 Event 1st ascent of Mount Marcy (5,344') highest in Adirondack, New York 1797 Event 1st ascent of "Great Mountain" (4,622') in Adirondack New York (C Broadhead) 1783 Event Jean Pilatre de Rozier makes captive-balloon ascent 1709 Event 1st known ascent in hot-air balloon, Bartolomeu de Gusmao (indoors)
