Michel-Clément Payot was a Chamoniard mountain guide.
A trained farrier, Michel Payot was one of the three sons of Jean Payot, a farmer and guide (he had notably guided Rodolphe Töpffer, Eugene de Savoie, Marshal Auguste Marmont and Don Pedro, Emperor of Brazil. His brothers Frederick and Alphonse were also guides. In 1858 he was chosen as porter by the guide Auguste Balmat to accompany to Mont Blanc John Tyndall and Alfred Wills, two British celebrities in the world of mountaineering. He joined the Compagnie des Guides de Chamonix in 1863. In 1870, he met the English geologist James Eccles. In 1877 he made the first ascent of the southern slopes of Mont Blanc, July 30 and 31, by the ridge of Peuterey. The following year, with Eccles, he made the second ascent of Fremont Peak in the Rocky Mountains.
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