Mont Blanc on skis - 14th of May

For years I have wanted to ski down Mont Blanc but it has not been that easy to time good weather, time off work, climbing partner, fitness and being acclimatised - a lot of factors that must be there. I sat in the Chamex office working Tuesday morning and looked at the weather forecast. A bad weather front was forecasted to come in on Thursday but Wednesday was looking perfect. I phoned up my friend Mel and we decided to meet by the Aiguille du Midi lift at 16.45 to go up to the Cosmiques refuge for the night to get an early start the next morning.

Mont Blanc early morning startMont Maudit in the early sunrise

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photo-blog Martina Palm 18 May 2008 1 Comment