Modi - Mar 5, 2011 12:48 pm Date Climbed: Jul 15, 1994
NORMAL ROUTE FROM CHABOD
WAKED UP AT 3.00 A.M., LEFT THE CHABOD HUT AT 4.00. ON TOP AT 7,30 A.M.. WONDERFUL WEATHER AND CONDITIONS.
etai101 - Dec 20, 2010 2:07 pm Date Climbed: Sep 25, 1999
via normal route
oh yea 1st 4k summit the poisen is surging in the vaines and great weather
Ides - Oct 20, 2010 8:06 am Date Climbed: Aug 6, 2010
Superb summit
Normal Route from Rifugio Vittorio Emanuele. Very beautiful summit!
geeman - Sep 4, 2010 10:15 am Date Climbed: Aug 29, 2010
Normal route
Beautiful weather conditions. Climbed with friends via Rifugio Vittorio Emanuele. At the rifugio we were advised to avoid the normal routing on the glacier due to patchs of raw ice on the route. We chose to bypass the lower part of the glacier and join the route that comes from rifugio Chabot.
PereRamon - Aug 20, 2010 6:39 am Date Climbed: Aug 8, 2010
Normal route
Climbed it from Vittorio Emanuelle hut with my wife. Great landscape, great sensations, I enjoyed it a lot.
Branko - Aug 17, 2010 8:49 am Date Climbed: Aug 14, 2010
From refuge Vittorio Emanuele II II
My partner and I (leading) have climbed this wonderfull mountain from VE II hut via Ghiacciao del Laveciau. The conditions were not so good... we had a lot of wind, snowfall and low visibility. Apart of the bad weather this was a great experience and my highest peak/mountain so far.
Gorzi - Aug 15, 2010 4:43 pm Date Climbed: Aug 8, 2010
From Vittorio Emanuele
From Vittorio Emanuele Hut.
Noah (Oregon) - Aug 1, 2010 12:23 pm Date Climbed: Jul 30, 2010
From Rif. Vittorio Emanuel
We climbed to the "hut" from Pont in 1:25. The next morning we woke at 4 am and left by 5 am. At 8:30 am we were on the summit. The climb was straightforward and the glacier was completely free of crevasses. The summit blocks were very airy and there was a short traverse right under the summit where I was very happy to be able to clip in with some quick-draws. The Madonna summit is small but all three of us were able to squeeze up there. The crowds were on our heels so we descended and went all the way down to the car in Pont.
Route Climbed: Normal Route Date Climbed: july 2010
Climbed the normal route together with 3 friends and our guide, starting from the Rifugio Chabod. Very bad weather on the rocky part during our final push to the summit (strong wind and snow), but we all made it!
secander - Aug 4, 2009 6:16 am Date Climbed: Jul 25, 2009
Normal Route,
Started from Pont parking lot at 3:00 AM. Reached the Vittorio Emanuele II Refuge by 5:00 AM and the summit by noon. Snow conditions were perfect and we experienced no difficulties whatsoever with regard to weather.
Sebastian Hamm - Aug 3, 2009 10:22 am Date Climbed: Aug 1, 2009
Day Trip from Pont
The weather forecast was very bad for Sunday, so we decided to climb G.P. on a single day on Saturday.
We arrived at Pont 2 a.m., slept two hours and started from the parking at 6 a.m, summited at 12:30 p.m. and were back at Pont at 5 p.m. ... very exhausted!
icypeak - Jul 12, 2009 5:55 pm Date Climbed: Jun 23, 2009
Normal Route
Went from Refuge Vittorio Emanuele II. A second attempt..first one in 2007 when we had to turn back due to a sudden storm and then on the way down, broke my ankle on the trail and was treated to a scenic heli flight to the hospital. This time, I enjoyed a beautiful climb to the summit and proudly made my own way down the mountain! Some summits a just a little sweeter than others.
Ron Leliveld - Jul 12, 2009 5:22 am Date Climbed: Sep 9, 2008
Vittorio emanuelle
It was a difficult climb with very blank ice but with great sunshine and a clear sky.
I was on the top on two days following in July, 1997. On the first day my girlfriend became sick just an hour after we started from the Vittorio Emanuele hut, and returned to the house while my brother and I went up. However, we didn't reach the exact summit that day because of the big crowd and the icy rocks. We turned back just about 20 meters before the peak (horizontally), after waiting a long time for the passage to be free.
Next morning we tried again (this time I made my girlfriend eat some breakast in spite of this will and it helped :), and I guided her and my father tothe top. This time we were much faster and we reached the top before the crowd.
Five years laer, in 2002, I went there again with a bigger group, and ascended from the Chabod hut, which is a longer way, so we stopped again some meters before the Madonna because the crowd had already reached the summit from the shorter route.
ivarth - Aug 29, 2008 8:02 pm Date Climbed: Jul 15, 2008
From Vittorio emanuelle refuge
Climbed Gran Paradiso on July 15th.
Nice walk up the glacier, pretty good weather.
I was hesitant about checking the "Were you successful?" box because I stopped a few meters short of the Madonna summit. The summit was so heavily crowded, people were all over each other on the narrow ledges leading to the top that I did not feel comfortable and in my mind the few meters that I had left were not worth the risk. I unroped and carefully descended to safety.
In my mind I summitted the mountain so I'm happy with it :)
It was a good acclimatisation trip for Mont Blanc which I summited two days later.
yamesu - Aug 4, 2008 9:39 am Date Climbed: Jul 23, 2008
Me and my father ( at age 59 ) riched summit in bad weather conditions.. Anyway was fantastic day :-D Our first 4000 but not last!
bruno baschung - May 10, 2008 3:02 pm Date Climbed: May 9, 2008
normal route
I climbed Gran Paradiso to the highest true summit (4061m) and also wento the Madonna (4058m) on same day. Not much snow. But few people venture to do the true summit! (although relatively easy (belay possible for short abseil). I climbed before 3 times only to the madonna and one time just 20 meters below (too muchj people there!)
Bruno baschung
Cyrill - Nov 9, 2007 10:46 am Date Climbed: Aug 23, 2005
Modi - Mar 5, 2011 12:48 pm Date Climbed: Jul 15, 1994
NORMAL ROUTE FROM CHABODWAKED UP AT 3.00 A.M., LEFT THE CHABOD HUT AT 4.00. ON TOP AT 7,30 A.M.. WONDERFUL WEATHER AND CONDITIONS.
etai101 - Dec 20, 2010 2:07 pm Date Climbed: Sep 25, 1999
via normal routeoh yea 1st 4k summit the poisen is surging in the vaines and great weather
Ides - Oct 20, 2010 8:06 am Date Climbed: Aug 6, 2010
Superb summitNormal Route from Rifugio Vittorio Emanuele. Very beautiful summit!
geeman - Sep 4, 2010 10:15 am Date Climbed: Aug 29, 2010
Normal routeBeautiful weather conditions. Climbed with friends via Rifugio Vittorio Emanuele. At the rifugio we were advised to avoid the normal routing on the glacier due to patchs of raw ice on the route. We chose to bypass the lower part of the glacier and join the route that comes from rifugio Chabot.
PereRamon - Aug 20, 2010 6:39 am Date Climbed: Aug 8, 2010
Normal routeClimbed it from Vittorio Emanuelle hut with my wife. Great landscape, great sensations, I enjoyed it a lot.
Branko - Aug 17, 2010 8:49 am Date Climbed: Aug 14, 2010
From refuge Vittorio Emanuele II IIMy partner and I (leading) have climbed this wonderfull mountain from VE II hut via Ghiacciao del Laveciau. The conditions were not so good... we had a lot of wind, snowfall and low visibility. Apart of the bad weather this was a great experience and my highest peak/mountain so far.
Gorzi - Aug 15, 2010 4:43 pm Date Climbed: Aug 8, 2010
From Vittorio EmanueleFrom Vittorio Emanuele Hut.
Noah (Oregon) - Aug 1, 2010 12:23 pm Date Climbed: Jul 30, 2010
From Rif. Vittorio EmanuelWe climbed to the "hut" from Pont in 1:25. The next morning we woke at 4 am and left by 5 am. At 8:30 am we were on the summit. The climb was straightforward and the glacier was completely free of crevasses. The summit blocks were very airy and there was a short traverse right under the summit where I was very happy to be able to clip in with some quick-draws. The Madonna summit is small but all three of us were able to squeeze up there. The crowds were on our heels so we descended and went all the way down to the car in Pont.
il.rocciatore - Jul 25, 2010 1:59 pm
Route Climbed: Normal Route Date Climbed: july 2010Climbed the normal route together with 3 friends and our guide, starting from the Rifugio Chabod. Very bad weather on the rocky part during our final push to the summit (strong wind and snow), but we all made it!
secander - Aug 4, 2009 6:16 am Date Climbed: Jul 25, 2009
Normal Route,Started from Pont parking lot at 3:00 AM. Reached the Vittorio Emanuele II Refuge by 5:00 AM and the summit by noon. Snow conditions were perfect and we experienced no difficulties whatsoever with regard to weather.
Sebastian Hamm - Aug 3, 2009 10:22 am Date Climbed: Aug 1, 2009
Day Trip from PontThe weather forecast was very bad for Sunday, so we decided to climb G.P. on a single day on Saturday.
We arrived at Pont 2 a.m., slept two hours and started from the parking at 6 a.m, summited at 12:30 p.m. and were back at Pont at 5 p.m. ... very exhausted!
icypeak - Jul 12, 2009 5:55 pm Date Climbed: Jun 23, 2009
Normal RouteWent from Refuge Vittorio Emanuele II. A second attempt..first one in 2007 when we had to turn back due to a sudden storm and then on the way down, broke my ankle on the trail and was treated to a scenic heli flight to the hospital. This time, I enjoyed a beautiful climb to the summit and proudly made my own way down the mountain! Some summits a just a little sweeter than others.
Ron Leliveld - Jul 12, 2009 5:22 am Date Climbed: Sep 9, 2008
Vittorio emanuelleIt was a difficult climb with very blank ice but with great sunshine and a clear sky.
saman - Nov 24, 2008 6:43 am
Two days, two ascentsI was on the top on two days following in July, 1997. On the first day my girlfriend became sick just an hour after we started from the Vittorio Emanuele hut, and returned to the house while my brother and I went up. However, we didn't reach the exact summit that day because of the big crowd and the icy rocks. We turned back just about 20 meters before the peak (horizontally), after waiting a long time for the passage to be free.
Next morning we tried again (this time I made my girlfriend eat some breakast in spite of this will and it helped :), and I guided her and my father tothe top. This time we were much faster and we reached the top before the crowd.
Five years laer, in 2002, I went there again with a bigger group, and ascended from the Chabod hut, which is a longer way, so we stopped again some meters before the Madonna because the crowd had already reached the summit from the shorter route.
skileraar - Sep 7, 2008 7:56 am
Normal Route from Vittorio EmanuelleBusy up there.. Nice view from the top:)
ivarth - Aug 29, 2008 8:02 pm Date Climbed: Jul 15, 2008
From Vittorio emanuelle refugeClimbed Gran Paradiso on July 15th.
Nice walk up the glacier, pretty good weather.
I was hesitant about checking the "Were you successful?" box because I stopped a few meters short of the Madonna summit. The summit was so heavily crowded, people were all over each other on the narrow ledges leading to the top that I did not feel comfortable and in my mind the few meters that I had left were not worth the risk. I unroped and carefully descended to safety.
In my mind I summitted the mountain so I'm happy with it :)
It was a good acclimatisation trip for Mont Blanc which I summited two days later.
yamesu - Aug 4, 2008 9:39 am Date Climbed: Jul 23, 2008
From PontStarted from Pont and go back in one day !
alex_vega - Jul 12, 2008 9:34 pm Date Climbed: Jul 12, 2008
Normal route via Rif. Vittorio EmmanueleMe and my father ( at age 59 ) riched summit in bad weather conditions.. Anyway was fantastic day :-D Our first 4000 but not last!
bruno baschung - May 10, 2008 3:02 pm Date Climbed: May 9, 2008
normal routeI climbed Gran Paradiso to the highest true summit (4061m) and also wento the Madonna (4058m) on same day. Not much snow. But few people venture to do the true summit! (although relatively easy (belay possible for short abseil). I climbed before 3 times only to the madonna and one time just 20 meters below (too muchj people there!)
Bruno baschung
Cyrill - Nov 9, 2007 10:46 am Date Climbed: Aug 23, 2005
Gran Paradiso 4061 mBeautiful tour to the Gran Paradiso 4061 m
photos are here: Gran Paradiso 4061 m