This week George and Rebecca from London joined me in Chamonix for a few days of climbing. First day we spent the morning getting thoroughly caffeinated waiting for the weather to smarten up. Once it cleared around noon we made a bee line to the Point Lachenal Traverse to warm up the legs for tomorrow before marching over to the Cosmiques Refuge for the evening. 3am wake up call we headed up the Mont Blanc du Tacul and lovely 4000m peak on the Mont Blanc massive. Normally this summit is just passed by on people way to the Mont Blanc summit. This also was our plan but condition where not right for a summit attempt so we opted for a slighly lower summit. But still very worthy. With the shorter day we found ourselves back at the Cosmiques Refuge by 11am!! After a few more coffees we where ready for round two of the day, the Cosmiques Arete back to the gondola.
Dent du Geant
Warm up climb - Point Lachenale
Reaching the summit of Mont Blanc du Tacul
A climber on the top of the south face of the midi.
George and Rebecca with Mont Maudit behind
Cosmiques Arete. Photo is a month old. But a good one! Thought i should share
Finishing the Cosmiques Arete
George struggeling with the last pitch of the Cosmiques!
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