Aiguille du Chardonnet with strong high winds

Aiguille du Chardonnet seen in the morning during descent from Col Superieur du Tour to the hut Albert I.
The shape of the "cloud hat" shows extremely strong high winds and indicates already the weather change. 2 hours later we got thunderstorms (fortunately we were already down in the valley) and it rained / snowed (above app. 3.000 m) for the following 3 days...

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August 2007 by Herbert