Mt.Blanc Week 01 – A week of Classic Alpine Climbs
Our first Mont Blanc finished today. Despite bad weather our 5 participants still managed to pack a lot into their week. They started at the Albert Premier Refuge on Monday where they did training on the glacier.
The walk up to the hut was long without the aid of the chair lift and the group did a great job. It was and early start on Tuesday morning for the the first Alpine summit of the week, the Aiguilles du Tour (3540m), weather was good and the view from the summit were spectacular.
There were aching limbs that evening and sore knees on Wednesday morning! Wednesday was very wet with torrential rain all day and the forecast was unfortunately not good for Mt Blanc. So the plan for the day was to head to the indoor climbing wall in Les Houches for some rock climbing. The next day they headed up to the Torino Refuge where the group completed the Traverse of the Aiguille de Toula. This was followed by the Traverse of the Marbrees the next day. Both of these routes are involve proper alpine climbing so hats off to our group!
The last day the group did the Classic Arête des Cosmiques. So not getting to Mont Blanc resulted in a week of full on Alpine Climbing including some much more technical and challenging routes! Well done to everyone!
photo-blog Anne 13 Jun 2011 No Comments
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