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Series: Chamonix 2007
An Alpine start, we got up extra early this morning to catch the 6.10am lift up to the Aiguille du Midi. Our plan was to climb Chere Gully on the Triangle du Tacul, but by the time we got there someone had taken away the Triangle du Tacul. In fact someone had taken away everything! …
We’d planned a day up high today after our little bit of acclimatisation yesterday. But as luck would have it Laetitia has caught a cold! So, to save the day Paul & Pete hired some big hitter downhill mountain bikes and caught the ski lift to the top of the Col de Balme! The top …
After waking up to a beautiful morning, late as usual, I was keen to get out after two days cooped up in the apartment. After a hasty breakfast, we (Paul, Laetitia and Pete; Boris went to climb some ice somewhere on the glacier) drove to the train station to grab a train up to Montenvers. …
What a view! (photo by Paul) Today, the weather was as forecasted, fantastic. The clear crisp morning would have been perfect conditions for heroic activities at 4000m, but not for us. During the early hours of the morning, there was sudden and alarming activity in the Sterling residence; as first Pete, and then Boris, made …
Laetitia contemplates a knife? (photo by Paul) Pete’s plan A today seemed to also be plan A for every beginner in the valley. We approached Valorcine and found it heaving with would be climbers. Every route was occupied by young students learning the ropes. Crowds of beginners! We managed to find a route that isn’t …
Yes this slab (sorry, wall, Terry) was “Grande” and great fun too. Although I think we got off route a bit at one point finding ourselves in the middle of very blank slab some way above the last protection! But that isn’t surprising, we had no guidebook, just Paul’s vague recollection of the route from …
Paul and Boris We said we’d get back to Le Chapeau (it was good last time) – and today the poor forecast coupled with our forgetting the guidebook meant we needed a plan B; Chapeau… Paul, Boris, Laetitia and Pete grabbed four excellent granite slab routes before today’s thunderstorms started. Testing moves on a 6c …