Helicopter on Mount Blanc French pilot Jean Moine is shown here beside his American Bell 47-G helicopter atop mount blanc, 15, 781 feet, Europe's highest mountain, yesterday June 6. He claims this is a new record for the highest helicopter landing - the previous record was held by a Frenchman who landed on the jungfrau, 13, 653 feet, in Switzerland.. Moine, who took mountain guide Andre Contanine as a passenger, spent about four minutes on the peak. June 23, 1955. (Photo by Associated Press Phot