One of the primary motivations for climbing mountains has been science: discovering the mysteries of high altitudes has fascinated scientists since the eighteenth century. Horace-Bénédicte de Saussure was one of the pioneers of alpine science with his work “Voyages dans les Alpes”, published between 1779 and 1796. Subsequently, different disciplines were established and developed to study phenomena specific to mountains: glaciology, mountain sickness, geomorphology…