▲Gran Paradiso Climber's Log
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| archiloco | Normal Route  Date Climbed: Sep 5, 1988 | |
| Normal Route from Rifugio Vittorio Emanuele. A small and very crowded summit! | |
| Posted Nov 4, 2007 11:59 am | ||
| singularity | normal route Date Climbed: Jul 10, 2005 | |
| the weather conditions weren't very good, but it was still possible to reach the summit via the normal route. because of the bad weather whe had no view on the summit. | |
| Posted Oct 24, 2007 6:07 pm | ||
| Bor | Route climbed: Normal route from Refuge Victora Emanuela II Date Climbed: Jul 19, 2007 | |
| In good conditions we reach the summit of Gran Paradiso. It was a bit cloudy and windy. Good mountain for aclimatization. | |
| Posted Jul 22, 2007 1:34 pm | ||
| RenatoG | Normal Route from Rif.Chabod Date Climbed: Jul 20, 2007 | |
| Wonderful day! We started at 4.40 am from Chabod Hut and reached the summit at about 8.50. Summit very crowded, cold wind: we renounced to the last 10 meters to Madonnina... Going down from the summit, because of the growing up of temperature, the Lavenciau glacier was quite dangerous: it's still snow covered and the snow-bridge above crevasses can suddenly fall: keeep attention and start very early in the morning!!! | |
| Posted Jul 21, 2007 4:07 pm | ||
| badyl | normal route Date Climbed: Jul 3, 2007 | |
| not the best weather, especially on the summit and on the way down, we started and finished in Pont, so over 2000m up and then down:)) crowdy in the summit area and therefore dangerous, people pushing one another, I didn't like it | |
| Posted Jul 21, 2007 6:41 am | ||
| Digitis | Normal Route Date Climbed: Jul 4, 2004 | |
| My first 4000, nice weather. | ||
| Posted Jul 12, 2007 5:33 pm | ||
| bc44caesar | West Face Date Climbed: Jul 8, 2007 | |
| Headed up to the refuge on Saturday evening and left around 3:30am the next morning before the crowds. Reached the summit via the normal route in under 4hrs and also scrambled to the Madonna summit. Quite windy that day, but a nice, mellow route. | |
| Posted Jul 9, 2007 12:37 pm | ||
| Joerg Marretsch | Normal Route, Rif. Chabod Date Climbed: Jul 7, 2007 | |
| After a week of clouds and snow: Clear sky, cold wind and awesome views to the other mountains in the alps! | |
| Posted Jul 8, 2007 8:03 am | ||
| Zurbriggen | North Face Date Climbed: Jun 30, 2007 | |
| Climbed the North Face of Grand Paradiso from Refugio Chabod. Started at 3:00 in the morning and summited at 8:00. Back via normal route. Several parties on the route, which was in excellent conditions. Some even decented it on skies. Fantastic weather with clear skies and allmost no wind. A great first north face experience. | |
| Posted Jul 5, 2007 5:27 pm | ||
| Nikman | Solo up there Date Climbed: Jul 12, 2004 | |
| Solo to the summit on a cloudy day. Much snow and no crevasses on the normalroute. I carried snowblades up there, but didn´t use them going down, because the visibility became worse during the day, so skiing down was not a good idea. | |
| Posted May 6, 2007 5:13 pm | ||
| aquariusz | Succesful climb Date Climbed: Aug 14, 2006 | |
| We climbed Gran Paradiso in bad weather conditions after tenting above the refuge. Such a pity we didn't have a nice panorama. Definitely worth to climb it :) | |
| Posted Aug 27, 2006 3:55 pm | ||
| morceaux | Via old glacier route Date Climbed: Jul 24, 2006 | |
| Agree with Julesblaidd, adding that we jumped both bigger crevasses instead of wading through them using the ladder there... The climb was great and enjoyable, the weather was fortunately fair, the clouds only prevented us to see further mountains. On descent we just passed the bergschrund, when we spotted huge blocks of rock falling down from the summit block - just from where we were eating some 15 minutes ago... | |
| Posted Jul 30, 2006 9:58 am | ||
| julesblaidd | from Vittorio Emanuelle refuge, on the glacier Date Climbed: Jul 24, 2006 | |
| The icy bottom of Gran Paradiso glacier was 40-45° steep so we did an easy ice-climbing... :-) It was fun. There were two "bigger" crevasses on the glacier and some smaller. The route is very long but in nice weather it's beautiful... in bad weather it sucks... We fortunatelly had sunshine and blue sky. :-) | |
| Posted Jul 29, 2006 1:43 am | ||
| Huberschwiller | First on the summit this day Date Climbed: Jun 24, 2006 | |
| I climbed from Vittorio Emmanuele over the central moraine and ridge of the Gran Paradiso glacier.Great environment, but soft snow without catches along the ridge!I reached the summit in 4 hours from the hut. I used the normal route as way down. | |
| Posted Jul 16, 2006 6:32 am | ||
| Corvus | Normal Route Date Climbed: Jul 3, 2006 | |
| Good weather and snow. | |
| Posted Jul 3, 2006 9:49 pm | ||
| JanVanGenk | Normal route via Rif. Vittorio Emmanuele Date Climbed: Jun 17, 2006 | |
| Started at the parking area in Pont and did it in one push right up to the summit. The weather was good when I started. But then... Lightning, rain, blizzard, whiteout - got it all on the way up. Reward - I was the first one to summit that day;) | |
| Posted Jun 19, 2006 7:16 am | ||
| bbirtle | Normal on Ski from V. Emanuel II Hut Date Climbed: Apr 19, 2006 | |
| Bright sunny warm day, very little wind. Could you ask for better? Well crap snow conditions... refrozen slush transitioning into windbuffed satstrugi. Took three hours and some change for the climb up and around an hour on the way down, mostly because I had to take off the skis and bushwack the last bit in the thick forest without snow cover. Hey if you do this one, make sure climb the REAL summit. I made fun of a guide that was ferrying 11 clients to the fake summit wit the little Mother Mary on the top. It isn't the the summit and you miss out on the best climbing, which is in between there and the real summit, 20 minutes or so of scrambling away. | |
| Posted Apr 20, 2006 4:42 pm | ||
| Jeroen Vels | Normal route from Chabod Date Climbed: Jul 24, 2001 | |
| As part of a climbing course I scaled my first 4000 m peak. It's a nice tour, easy and very crowded. See also my website here. | |
| Posted Mar 28, 2006 2:20 pm | ||
| turistoalpinista | Route from Ref. Vittorio E. II.,nice ascent,but maybe a little boring... Date Climbed: Jul 11, 2005 | |
| Started from bivouac above Refuge V.E. II.My first mountain over 4000m...Good aspect,perfect weather... | |
| Posted Mar 14, 2006 3:44 pm | ||
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