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| May 2011, Jacob and I, went to Chamonix to climb a couple of routes. We had about 5 days. |
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| As soon as we came to Chamonix, we started packing our gear, to be ready to stay up there for 2 days. (which should be good conditions) |
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| The plan was to climb Chere Couloir on Tacul, and then go to the cosmique hut, and then go to climb the N-face of Tour Ronde the next day. (Where we only would have a "half" day, because of the weather) |
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| Me with Chere Couloir in the back. The clear line in the left of the triangle. |
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| On the move:) The weather is very good, with high sun, no wind and blue sky. |
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| Jacob is getting ready to climb pitch 3. The route was quite crowded, (see the rope of climbers coming down) |
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| Jacob on Pitch 3. Very good ice conditions. |
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| Me at the top of pitch 3. Already here it is a bit late, because of the other teams. But the weather was good and from here, there should not be anybody above us. |
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| Me on pitch 4. |
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| Top of pitch 4 or 5 or something. From here, the couloir "opened up, and the climbing became less steep, and less interesting. |
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| It ended up here, where we could see none of the other teams had been. Because it was simply too boring, Here have climbed 2 pitches longer, than the "usual" end. (The route can be climbed all the way to top of tacul) From here we startet absail down. And we had a couple of hours of light left, so that should be fine. |
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| After we absailed down, on our second go, the rope jammed. So we had to cut it. so now we only had one 50m half-rope. That was ok, but it just took a bit longer than expected:) We came to the bottom at 1 AM, put up a tent to "buvi" for the night. |
A small video from the trip:)
