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This
is resting day. I have no plans to climb a peak, just
to take the cable
car to Refugio Torino at Courmayeur,
enjoying the view
around Mont
Blanc. The cable car stops
at 3335m. After that you climb one
stairway to 3375m. A
few tourists moan here. We are fairly
high...
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Up
here you can leave the public areas and reach the
glacier. I have no
equipment, just ordernary gymnastic
shoes, and ask a group of alpinists
if it's possible to walk
a short bit, and how far?
"There
are crevasses" they say.
"If
you fall into a crevass, then stop". With this
"good
advice" I
enter the glacier. |
Of
course, I only walk
on the very trampled tracks. About a km out you can see this. The cable
car from Punta Hellbronner, 3465m to Aiguille du
Midi, 3842m.
Mt. Blanc in the Background.
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I
reach a smaller peak, which I could have climbed with the
right
equipment. But without it's too dangerous. Instead, I
climb Punta
Helbronner to get a deacent view from there. |
Naturally, there is no great
achievement in walking around
a couple of km here. But it's so
spectacular, that I show
the pictures for that reason. Dente del Gigante, 4014m
and
Grandes Jorasses, 4206m. |
Zooming
in Dente del Gigante. It doesn't look easy to
climb up there.
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| Aiguilles des Noires, 3773m. |
And
there it is, Mont Blanc 4807m. To the
right is Mont
Maudit 4468m. |
A
closeup on Mont Blanc, from all directions and always, a mighty giant. |
