Mont Blanc Summit Day

Mont Blanc Summit Day
After the previous days exertions on the Aiguilee d’Entreves I was pleased to not be suffering from any altitude problems and was looking forward to some well earnt rest. Unfortunately my body had other ideas and I spent the hours wide awake with a mixture of excitment and trepdiation about what was to [...]

Mont Blanc Summit Day 3

MONT BLANC AUGUST 2009 DAY 3
After a terrible nights sleep; a combination of my headache and Rogers snoring, we woke early and kitted up ready for a second day on the glacier.
The challenge for the day was a traverse of the Aiguilee d’Entreves.  This was to start with crossing the Glacier du Geant and then [...]

Mont Blanc Summit trip Day 2

MONT BLANC AUGUST 2009 DAY 2
For this trip Nigel Shepherd, our usual guide, was unavailable, probably swanning off on a ski test with Salomon, so we called up Paolo Perrini.
Paolo is quite a character, one hell of a ski guide, and as it turned out, just the kind of character you need with you when [...]

Mont Blanc Summit trip Day 1

 
MONT BLANC AUGUST 2009 DAY 1
Two good friends of mine had been planning a third attempt at Mont Blanc having failed twice due to bad weather conditions close to the summit. On both those occassion they attempted to climb it by skinning from the valley floor in Les Houches. That quite a hike on skis. From [...]