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| il.rocciatore | Route Climbed: Traverse Barre des Ecrins - Dôme de Neige des Ecrins Date Climbed: september 2012  | |
| Short and obligatory climb from Breche Lory after having traversed the Barre des Ecrins. No views on the summit due to clouds coming in quickly. | |
| Posted Sep 25, 2012 6:07 pm | ||
| Rafa Bartolome | Beautiful Ecrins Date Climbed: Aug 24, 2012 | |
| We enjoyed a lot of this spectacullar glacier and this beautiful peak. It was an interesting alpine experience with my friend Maribel. We climbed on Friday and we were only a few of people without guide (10 versus 40). I never considered the possibility to try the Barre in our conditions (limited experience in ensemble) and I was very tired in the summit. Tomorrow I will return to my job but when I will close the eyes I will remember for a second this amazing place in my mind. I will remember the wonderful dawn over the Glacier Blanc for a long time. | |
| Posted Aug 26, 2012 4:25 pm | ||
| Silvia Mazzani | Breche Lory normal route Date Climbed: Aug 28, 2004 | |
| Frome ref. des Ecrins. Glacier very dry!!! | |
| Posted Jul 26, 2012 1:43 pm | ||
| WouterB | In combination with the Barre des Ecrins Date Climbed: Jul 22, 2012 | |
| Probably one of the easier 4K summits. Easy doesn't mean safe though, there's some huge seracs hanging over the route. | |
| Posted Jul 25, 2012 5:08 am | ||
| bruno.carbonne | Normal route Date Climbed: Aug 28, 1981 | |
| Stopped the ascent to the Barre des Ecrins at the Dome de neige because of wind and cold | |
| Posted Aug 30, 2011 12:14 pm | ||
| [X] Bird | Second 4k summit of the day Date Climbed: Aug 5, 2010 | |
| After we climbed the Barre we bagged this on as well, all in all a long but rewarding trip. | |
| Posted Jan 14, 2011 6:14 pm | ||
![[X] Bird](/images/avatars/432714.jpg)
| FrançoisJ | normal Date Climbed: Aug 4, 1988 | |
| with my father, brother, and me date/year approx | |
| Posted Oct 8, 2010 3:44 pm | ||
| Nikman | North face Date Climbed: Aug 10, 2010 | |
| From Rif. Ecrins. A ladder helped over a big wide open crevasse. | |
| Posted Aug 13, 2010 7:07 am | ||
| Sebastian Hamm | From Ref. d. Ecrins Date Climbed: Aug 10, 2010 | |
| Visiting Dome de Neige before climbing Barre des Ecrins. | |
| Posted Aug 12, 2010 5:29 am | ||
| FrançoisJ | Normal route Date Climbed: Aug 1, 1988 | |
| First 4000er for my father, brother and I late 80's | |
| Posted Mar 26, 2010 2:36 pm | ||
| Simnel | NIce route | |
| DOne in great conditions. | |
| Posted Mar 3, 2010 1:55 pm | ||
| boriskrielen | Route climbed: normal from refuge Glacier Blanc Date Climbed: Oct 11, 2009 | |
| Climbed it solo from the refuge Glacier Blanc. Conditions were OK. Cold. And a lot of fresh snow, sometimes waist deep. Barre des Ecrins and Pic Lory failed because of iced conditions on the ridge and wall. | |
| Posted Oct 16, 2009 9:00 am | ||
| Gertiño | First 4000'er without mountain guide Date Climbed: Jul 2, 2009 | |
| Left from Refuge des Ecrins (thanks Jeannot for another wonderful stay in a Refuge run by you) at about 3.45 am and reached the summit together with Willhe and Cé at about 7.30 am. We went straight up through the middle of the glacier (steeper) as the normal route was considered to be too dangerous because of the risk of falling ice. Excellent weather and great view (on Mont Blanc, Matterhorn, Monte Viso etc.). I'll be back for the Barre des Ecrins in the (hopefully near) future. | ||
| Posted Jul 5, 2009 4:29 am | ||
| ferdinandverboom | Route Climbed: Normal Route Date Climbed: Aug 31, 2008 | |
| I went out with my friend Maarten thursdaynight from Holland (below zero), we arrived in Ailefroide at friday, late noon. The next day we packed our heavy bags and arrived in the afternoon at Refuge des Ecrins. Instead of sleeping in the crowded, expensive but comfortable refuge we set up our camp at the glacier. Everything went fine, it was a beautiful, not to cold, night, but we made one mistake. We drunk some water out of a small stream just below the refuge. Somewere we knew this wasn't a very good idea with the sanitair of the refuge 100m metres above us, but we were tired, in need of water, and we had little desire to climb up to the refuge for fresh water. The climb went great. It wasn't very demanding, but with our one-day acclimatization it was... Actually we wanted to climb the Barre, but when we came there we had not enough gear and spirit to make the final climb, so we went to the dome, which was also pretty nice. The descent was very long and I've never felt so tired after a climb before. The reason for that revealed itself that night, when all the bad water came out..... | |
| Posted Oct 10, 2008 12:47 pm | ||
| rosannadidi | final trip of the mountaineering course Date Climbed: Jul 2, 2006 | |
| my first European 4K ! absolutely fantastic but tiring (didn't sleep at all during night, only one hour on the glacier on the way back!) | |
| Posted Jul 19, 2007 11:48 am | ||
| pablo | Normal Route Date Climbed: Jul 4, 2007 | |
| At 3am in the morning, clock alarm sound but wind and storm were yet strong. Jean Philippe, Philippe and me decided to postpone to 7am. At this time sun was there. We got out of the hut and traversed the glacier. When beginning the climb the clouds came down and the wind still was strong (60-80km/h). We decided to continue, reaching the summit without visibility and relatively violent wind at 10h30am. We made some photos and went down quick. Although the Dome is considered a relatively easy climb the weather conditions made the experience harder, like in winter. We celebrated with some beers back in the Glacier Blanc Hut around 13h00pm, at the end of the day it is a 4000m ! | |
| Posted Jul 10, 2007 6:19 am | ||
| schmid_th | Easy going Date Climbed: Jul 12, 2005 | |
| Normal way from Refuge des Écrins is easy going. Nice view - but our main target, the Barre des Écrins, failed because of a completely iced ridge and the fall of 2 climbers in front before us. | |
| Posted Sep 6, 2006 9:43 am | ||
| Trabalon | Normal Route to Barre Ecrins in august 2002 | |
| We climbed this peak with my friend Dani in Barre des Ecrins climbed. An easy peak but very beautiful! | |
| Posted Feb 28, 2006 5:46 pm | ||
| the.thys.family | Route Climbed: Normal with ice couloir to breche Lory Date Climbed: 21 september 2005 | |
| Beautiful day, already a lot of snow. When we started the ascent, a small harmless avalanche came down from the first serrac. It stopped 200 m above us. In any case it was a very good wake up call at 6 AM in the morning. The ascent is rather easy with the exception of the ice couloir just underneath the breche Lory. I would advice to take 4 to 5 icescrews in order to secure this short difficult part of the route since the ice couloir at the bottom ends in a large and deep ice crevasse. Splendid view from the top (arrival 0930 AM) | |
| Posted Sep 26, 2005 2:44 pm | ||
| Pietzl | Route Climbed: Normal route via Brèche Lory Date Climbed: 24 august 2005 | |
| great climb on a beautiful day, and a special one for my climbing partner and me: our first 4000 meter peak! Easy but long snow walk uphill, except for the steep ice wall (60º, 15m) at Brèche Lory. The view on the mont blanc is great! | |
| Posted Sep 13, 2005 4:49 am | ||
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