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Als Akklimatisierungstour für unseren 1 wöchigen Aufenthalt in Chamonix, entschieden wir uns für den Frendo Pfeiler in der Aiguille du midi Nordwand. Bewertet ist die Tour mit 5c bewertet und einer Dauer von 1-2 Tagen angegeben. Wir rechneten von der Mittelstation bis zum Ausstieg mit ungefähr 10 Stunden. Also fuhren wir mit...

Besteigungsbericht: 13.08 - 14.08.2016 Überschreitung: Areté du Diable - Mont Blanc du Tacul - Mont Maudit Route: Chamonix - Courmayeur – Rifugio Torino – Col du Diable – Corne du Diable – Pointe Chaubert – Pointe Médiane – Pointe Carmen – Isoleé – Mont Blanc du Tacul – Mont Maudit – Aiguille du Midi...

Venir grimper à Chamonix l'été au voisinage des téléphériques est certes déconseillé au agoraphobes. Mais si le monde entier vient faire la queue ici, ce n'est pas pour rien : cette voie majeure de la face Sud du Brévent, d'une verticalité quasi dolomitique, offre un rocher tout simplement exceptionnel, sculpté du...

This is one of those adventures that you unknowingly or unwillingly get into, but feel so happy and proud of when you come out of it unscathed! Ron is an Israeli climber with about 8 years of climbing experience in the US, and had done North faces up to TD- in the Rockies. I am relatively raw, with just over a year of climbing...

Did this the day after Cosmiques Arete. A reasonably good climb, we started out at 6:15 am, summitted around and 8:45, and rapidly descended in just over an hour. The only real difficulty was the last section which has a bit of grade 2-3 rock climbing. Actually it is a simple chimney, but when the ground is icy (it was hard...

This is a short, lovely technical climb at Aiguille du Midi, Chamonix. An extremely popular route due to easy access and easy descent after the climb. Approach: Can be done as a day trip from Chamonix. We however reached Chamonix the previous evening, took the cable car to Aiguille du Midi and descended to Cosmiques Hut...