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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 stays 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. |
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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. |
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. |
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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. |
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A closeup on Mont Blanc, from all
directions and always, a mighty giant. |
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