"Got tight last night on absinthe and did knife tricks. Great success shooting the knife into the piano. The woodworms are so bad and eat hell out of all furniture that you can always claim the woodworms did it."
--Ernest Hemingway
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Flachlandtiroler - Oct 16, 2020 3:35 am Date Climbed: Aug 1, 2020
Arete du Diable (Teufelsgrat)Patrick led all pitches. Optimum conditions apart from the scree in the couloir. Only few (4-5) teams in the route. We were a party of three, round trip from/to Torino hut took 17h.
ericvola - Jun 7, 2013 11:56 am
traverse of the Aiguilles du DiableDid the traverse taking up a couple of friends in 1964. The ridge to go to Mont Blanc du Tacul was so rotten (it had been far too sunny for too long so there was no snow nor ice at all to solidy the rocks) that I preferred to unrope. Better one or two deads than 3!
Leendertschwab - Sep 23, 2010 5:36 am
traverse ... laterHave to come back for the full traverse. We (with Menno) climbed untill the point chaubert and decided to return by abseils.Too much snow. Started at 2 o'çlock at midi camping and arrived at the col du diable at sunrise. SW couloir as approach.