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...

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...

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...