Google Doodle joined in celebrating an important day in Greece’s history – the 87th anniversary of the first climbers to reach Mount Olympus’s highest peak.
The giant mountain enchants the minds of all, seeped deep in mythology as the home of the ancient Greek gods and many myths.
Mount Olympus, which is some 2,917 meters high, is climbed by around 10,000 people annually, however most of them only traverse the Skolio summit and do not make it all the way to the top.
The first group to climb the mountain made it to the top peak one year after Greece’s liberation from Ottoman rule, on August 2, 1913.
Swiss natives Frédéric Boissonnas and Daniel Baud-Bovy, made it to Greece’s highest peak Mytikas (meaning ‘nose’), lead by hunter of wild goats, Christos Kakkalos.
Kakkalos was actually the first of the group to reach the peak — making him the first man to walk on Mytikas — and he remained the official guide of Mount Olympus until his death in 1976.
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