Fontainebleau Stop-off
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From Fontainebleau Stop-off
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From Zermatt
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From Chamonix, but no Haute Route for us!
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Month: April 2019
Zermatt
Chamonix, but no Haute Route for us!
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We’d travelled to the Chamonix in our van to give us some flexibility… Would the weather mean we’d need to go elsewhere? Would we drive to Zermatt? Would Brexit mean our return date needed to change? Would we want to stop off at Fontainebleau for some bouldering action on the way home? All of these …
Having failed to get our act together for the Haute Route for all sorts of reasons, and having booked a hotel in Zermatt that wouldn’t let us cancel without full payment (!), we decided to go and ski in Zermatt anyhow. This turned in to quite an exciting prospect as only Dawn out of our …
Laetitia and I had planned to do the Haute Route with Ian, Rachel and Andy, and Dawn and Austin several months earlier. However, first Ian had to drop out due to work commitments. Then Austin had to bail because of illness. And now as we arrived in Chamonix Laetitia had caught a wicked flu from …
In the metic system one millilitre of water occupies one cubic centimetre, weights one gram, and requires one calorie of energy to heat it up by one degree centigrade – which is one percent of the difference between its freezing and boiling points. And an amount of hydrogen weighing the same amount, one gram, has …