Climbing the aid section on Cosmiques Arête

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Climbing the aid section on Cosmiques Arête rated 4c. The crux slab was vandalised in early summer 2007 when sections of rock were chipped out so maybe it's not quite as hard anymore. Here are some photos of the damage:

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Ejnar Fjerdingstad

Cold

Voted 10/10

Looks like a cold day!

Posted Nov 15, 2006 10:57 am


	BigLee	Re: Cold
	Hasn't voted	Just like a Scottish winter! Fantastic.
		Posted Aug 1, 2007 8:37 am


	BigLee	Re: ?!?!?
	Hasn't voted	Tell me about it! Idiots
		Posted Aug 14, 2007 1:17 pm

Cyrill

Cosmiques Arête

Voted 10/10

the unforgettable impressions of live :-)

Posted Nov 18, 2007 3:06 pm

Ervinator	Aaaargh :(
Hasn't voted	Maybe a real old-fashioned nature-preserving mountaineer will fill the drilled holes and maybe the city of Chamonix will donate a nice copper sign on the top of the fixed holes saying "If you can't climb it, the aid crack is to the right!".
	Posted Jan 13, 2008 5:14 pm

jonnyb

???

Hasn't voted

Who's the handsome bugger leading?

Posted Feb 25, 2008 9:29 pm

mills

Unbelivable

Voted 10/10

Why oh why did somebody go to all that effort to deface the rock, totally unacceptable behaviour !
Like you`r gallery :)

Posted Mar 8, 2010 3:44 pm

Deltakyp

Ignoring ignorance

Hasn't voted

I took note of your description here before climbing the Arête this July in perfect weather and did find the slots that were cut which looked to just accommodate crampon front points. But thanks to your post, I was on the lookout and mindfully avoided the "aid" of this unfortunate defacement of pristine rock that anyone who requires such aid shouldn't be there in the first place. I feel the same about many placements of fixed rope in areas such as the Hornli ridge on the Matterhorn, but unfortunately due to the numbers that flow up and down that route especially in the summer, they are necessary, though I tried to avoid them as much as possible except to expedite passing. Pity how the true nature of climbing is all to oft spoiled by such props nowadays...

Posted Nov 10, 2010 1:45 am

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