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From Vajolet Towers - Delagokante
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From Slabs and cake at Les Cheserys
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From Aiguille Rouge
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From Eperon Nord, North West slabs of
Aiguille du Peigne
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From Girls Weekend Out(Door)
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From At last a day without paint - L'ile aux Razmokets
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From Björkliden Arctic Mountain Marathon
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From Two Lofoten Ascents
Month: August 2012
The Delagokante is the one that features in every Dolomite calendar, numerous postcards and picture books.
While Ian and I waited for Laetitia and Astrid to finish their route on the Aiguille Rouge, sitting on a boulder chatting about this and that, we realised that within just a few metres of where we were sat was an incredible array of alpine flowers.
With the promise of an afternoon thunderstorm and aching, ageing limbs, I was pleased that we had decided to head for the relatively close Les Cheserys up at the Col des Montets.
After the adventures of yesterday we were looking for a more relaxed day today. We headed to the top of the Index chairlift.
We left Chamonix early and arrived at the Aiguille du Plan with frost still covering the grass – the north facing cliff we’d selected for today’s adventures was going to be cold!
How to define a perfect girls weekend outDoor? Switzerland 1000m in hight uphill bivouac at 2500m sleeping under the starry sky during the nights of the perseids surrunded by several 4000m mountains (Eiger, Wetterhorn, Schreckhorn, Finsteraarhorn, etc.) whisteling marmots to accompany our dinner and chamoise flocks arround us being the first ones on the route …
After what seemed like endless days of scraping, sanding, painting, and more painting of the apartment’s shutters [more on that latter with before and after pictures] Ian and I finally got out to do some climbing…
We’ve always fancied doing the BAMM. It’s 200km North of the Arctic circle, and has always sounded like the greatest adventure of all the mountain marathons. This year we decided we had to do it, even though Björkliden is a full day of travel each way from Stockholm, and the whole trip ends up being …
The man who runs the Moskenes camp-ground assured us after our day at Reine that summer had finally arrived in Lofoten, and sure enough we had two perfect days of bright sunshine to follow. On the first, we decided to climb Hermannsdalstinden, the second highest peak in the Lofotens. We headed up the first hill, …
