minutes from 2013. Incidents involving children In July 2014, an American entrepreneur and traveller Patrick Sweeney attempted to break the record with his nine-year-old son and 11-year-old daughter. They were caught in an avalanche, escaped death and decided not to pursue their attempt. In August 2014, an unknown Austrian climber with his 5-year-old son were intercepted by mountain gendarmes at and forced to turn back. On 5 August 2017, 9-year-old Hungarian twins and their mother were rescued from by helicopter while their father and family friend continued their summit attempt. Cultural references Cinema and television La Terre, son visage, is a documentary by Jean-Luc Prévost and published by Édition Société national de télévision française, released in 1984. It is part of the Haroun Tazieff raconte sa terre, vol. 1 series. In it he talks about the west–east crossing of Mont Blanc. The film Malabar Princess. The television-film Premier de cordée. Storm over Mont Blanc (Stürme über dem Mont Blanc, 1930) with Leni Riefenstahl and directed by Arnold Fanck La Roue (The Wheel, 1923) is a 273-minute film by Abel Gance depicting rail operations, workers, and families in south-eastern France, including the Mont Blanc area. Literature Premier de cordée by Roger Frison-Roche Hugo et le Mont Blanc by Colette Cosnie – Édition Guérin Hymn Before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Manfred by Lord Byron Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley Mont Blanc by Percy Shelley Point Blanc by Anthony Horowitz The Prelude Book VI by William Wordsworth , by Letitia Elizabeth Landon, a poem to accompany an engraving of a painting by J. M. W. Turner. Kordian by Juliusz Słowacki Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains by Jon Krakauer Running Water by AEW Mason La neige en deuil by Henri Troyat Protection The Mont Blanc massif is being put forward as a potential World Heritage Site because of its uniqueness and cultural importance considered the birthplace and symbol of modern mountaineering. It would require the three governments of Italy, France and Switzerland to request UNESCO for it to be listed. Mont Blanc is one of the most visited tourist destinations in the world. For this reason, some view it as threatened. Pro-Mont Blanc (an international collective of associations for the protection of Mont Blanc) published in 2002 the book Le versant noir du mont Blanc (The black hillside of Mont Blanc), which exposes