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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Dec 21, 2017 - 05:51pm PT
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Wow,
There have been some really nice upgrades to this thread over the last couple of years!
Thanks Rick and Marlow.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Jan 14, 2018 - 09:06am PT
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Some old postcards from Champery - in Switzerland, but not far from Chamonix
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jan 14, 2018 - 10:56am PT
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Cham is crowded and expensive but still worthwhile...
But the French can be a little bit of a pita...
But with this so available who cares?
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Jan 31, 2018 - 11:38am PT
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Aiguille du Fou Face Sud voie Américaine Chamonix Mont-Blanc massif
Face Sud du Fou voie classique Américaine, 300 mètres en rocher (plus couloir en neige et mixte)... Première voie de la Face Sud... Gravie les 25 et 26 juillet 1963 par John Harlin, Tom Frost, Stewart Fulton et Gary Hemming...
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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Rick A
climber
Boulder, Colorado
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 7, 2018 - 10:07am PT
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Thanks for posting that Marlow! That is an excellent video about a legendary route put up by Tom Frost, Harlin, Hemmings and Fulton in 1963. Freed in 1983 at 7b+(12+?) by Eric Escoffier and Thierry Renault.
13 pitches with only 6a difficulty required if you French free it like the guys in the video. One of the most Yosemite-like faces in the area. No wonder the first ascensionists were drawn to it.
I loved how they can ski down to it from the Midi in mid winter to a relatively warm south face.
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Brian in SLC
Social climber
Salt Lake City, UT
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Great footage!
Yeah, ski approach and egress. Pretty sweet.
Makes me think I need to spend some (more) time in that area...in the spring ski season. If nothing else, to just soak it up.
Fun!
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Feb 27, 2018 - 12:06pm PT
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Vica
Sport climber
Budapest, Hungary
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Feb 28, 2018 - 11:55pm PT
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RDB
Social climber
Great Basin
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easy Chamonix mixed
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Chamonix - a procession with mountain guides - photo taken 1900 - 1930. If the diffuse object we see in the foreground is part of a car, the photo is most likely from 1920-1930. If it isn't, the photo could be earlier. Maybe someone is able to see from the street, the clothes or the hats?
The photo can be seen as a symbol of and is showing us how integrated mountain guides were and are in Chamonix life. For a long time guiding was the main income of Chamonix. If you came to Chamonix to climb you were expected to use at least one Chamonix guide, and when climbers from other places were accepted as Chamonix guides they were expected to marry a woman from Chamonix. Chamonix knew how to protect their interests and that is easy to understand. Originally most people living in Chamonix were poor farmers and ploughmen. English clients and guiding meant wealth coming to town.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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English clients and guiding meant wealth coming to town.
The sure sign of invasive wealth: 27€/kg for marmot turds!
But at least you can stay with Bigfoot at Le Mummery!
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Do you eat them?
But at least you can stay with Bigfoot at Le Mummery
This stoopeed postmodern life...
Is "Eating marmot turds" marketed as a postmodern way of curing you from eating marmot turds?
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Yes or use them as suppositories.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Or as an alternative to gammelost?
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Michael Fascinan
climber
Chamonix, france
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At a guess it’s the annual Fete de Guides-
Overview below, if you were really curious you could contact the Compagnie, they still do annual photos every year of all the guides. Maybe someone there would recognize person(s) in photo....
Established in 1821, the Chamonix Guides Company gathers over 150 certified mountain guides and leaders.
They provide mountain guiding service through the Mont Blanc massif and throughout the world. Famous, talented guides have been members of the “Compagnie”. On this day, young talented guides join the organisation each year during the traditional August 15th Guides Festival.
It was originally created as a fund raising event for the Emergency Fund, a financial reserve made to help members of the Compagnie des Guides in financial needs, due to injuries or after the loss of a family member. Each year, hundreds of volunteers, guides, leaders, friends and relatives, kindly give some of their time and energy to organise the Festival (entirely managed by guides from the Chamonix Guides’ Company) and raise funds during festivities. Established in 1924, the Emergency Fund also receives donations. In addition, benefits from sales of Compagnie des Guides’ items and other events contribute to financing the Fund.
During the Festival, guides from the Compagnie des Guides celebrate the relationship that exists between themselves, their clients, and the local population. This unique sense of brotherhood is tied somehow stronger than the rope connecting party members. The program of festivities revolves around friendship through extremely convivial encounters between local business owners, guides and visitors.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Thanks, Michael! I have come to understand that Chamonix culture is unique...
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Have you participated, Reilly? Any photos?
Or you, Michael?
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