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Luca Signorelli
Mountain climber
Courmayeur (Vda) Italy
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Jorasses from Val Ferret, above Courmayeur
Col des Grandes Jorasses, Pt. Young on the R
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Berner
Mountain climber
Switzerland
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Hy there
I want to share a picture from last week, even it is not the Grand Jorasses. It shows the Glacier d'Envers de Blaitière - not showing the temperature: -20 grad celsius and 60 km/h wind..
Quote Here conditions are great - Ice is noice, Sorenson-Eastman have perfect ice and now some more pitons to rapell.
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steveA
Trad climber
bedford,massachusetts
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Funny how I remember how much my feet hurt on the way down to Courmayeur,
after doing the Walker Spur, back in 1975. I had bought a pair of Super Guides, in Chamonix, and they weren't broken in.
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jaaan
Trad climber
Chamonix, France
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Super Guides used to break your feet in, not the other way round, Steve! Amazingly you can still get them!
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carlos gallego
Ice climber
Spain
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Luca and Berner... fantastic photos.
¡Ah!... Galibier boots... I used years ago the "Pro" model... with a plastic reinforcement in toes.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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jaaan, I lost one of mine crossing a raging river in the N Cascades once and
hiked out with one boot and my bare foot taped up. The bare foot felt better
at the end. Actually, it felt better all over, not just the end. ;-)
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 5, 2013 - 01:32pm PT
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Walter Bonatti and Michel Vaucher returning after climbing the Bonatti-Vaucher 1964:
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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jaaan
Trad climber
Chamonix, France
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@ Carlos Gallego.
Can you remember the date that you climbed the Walker in 1990?
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carlos gallego
Ice climber
Spain
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Jaaan...mmm... maybe in august but do not remember date.
We were surprised by storm near the top... I remember that there were a couple of climbers behind us that made bivouac 150m. from top... and we did it near de summit but in the italian side.
The next day we met two japanese climbers sleeping in a crevasse (italian side)... and near the hut we met two more climbers (we were eating with them and remember that they made the Eiger north face a days before).
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jaaan
Trad climber
Chamonix, France
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Ah, we had good clear weather all day. We were there on the 3rd August. I just wondered if you were the Spanish climbers who passed us near the top.
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Berner
Mountain climber
Switzerland
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just to make you jaleous a bit... ;-)
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 6, 2013 - 06:19pm PT
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Yes, but you know - there are times when even jealousy is a privilege. TFPU!
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 11, 2013 - 03:18pm PT
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Grandes Jorasses 1934 Peters and Haringer (La Montagne Juin 1955)
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 22, 2013 - 03:40pm PT
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No Siesta
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Ed: SteveA - Yeah, great mountain, great climbing and great sound-track. What more do a dreamer need? Lol...
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