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| climbxclimb | Normal Route, solo from Aiguille du Midi cable car Date Climbed: Jul 15, 2006 | |
| Easy route good for acclimatization and training. | |
| Posted Apr 11, 2007 2:32 pm | ||
| thegoldengriff | Normal Route from the Cosmiques Hut  Date Climbed: Mar 17, 2007 | |
| Set out late from the Cosmiques hut (9 o'clock in the morning) to tool around on the ice and decided on a whim to take advantage of the good weather and climb the normal route. Cold and clear all morning. Gorgeous views of Mt Blanc and Chamonix below. | |
| Posted Mar 25, 2007 3:28 pm | ||
| tphubbard | On way up MB | |
| Climbed to summit on the way way up MB. Would like to climb the Supercouloir one day. | |
| Posted Jan 28, 2007 3:42 pm | ||
| KRZYS | normal route from col du midi Date Climbed: Jul 22, 2006 | |
| Easy and no to long route. Beauty 4000-peak. (nice vives on the Mont Blanc Group and nort face Mont Maudit) | |
| Posted Sep 1, 2006 4:50 pm | ||
| MichaelJ | Some nice mixed route Date Climbed: Jul 20, 2006 | |
| Not exactly sure what we climbed. Perhaps Contamine Mazeud. We soloed up neve/ice past the shrund and climbed under some seracs before crossing right to a rock band, then more ice, more rock and finally a great mixed pitch up to the high snowfield on the shoulder and thence the slog to the summit. Climbed with Silvio. Lots of fun. | |
| Posted Aug 22, 2006 6:41 pm | ||
| Jeroen Vels | Route Climbed: Gervasutti Pillar Date Climbed: Jul 17, 2006 | |
| Climbed the pillar, by a lot of harder variations. It took us 24 (!) hours without a break. See also my website here. | |
| Posted Jul 30, 2006 8:40 pm | ||
| Joerg Marretsch | Normal Route from Col du Midi Date Climbed: Jul 4, 2006 | |
| No wind, dry and very hot. I need 3 hours from Rifuge de Cosmiques. | |
| Posted Jul 9, 2006 10:53 am | ||
| Valtho | Skiing down the Tacul in June Date Climbed: Jun 4, 2006 | |
| After a very noisy night due to people leaving the hut at almost every hour at night, or due to people who were having altitude sickness, we finally left the Cosmique hut at 8.00 o'clock in the morning in good weather and snow conditions. It was quite cold (-10c) but blue sky and 40 cm of fresh snow (it snowed the night before) and that in the beginning of June!! We skinned up to the Tacul in less than 2 hours and than we skied down all the way from 4.200m via the Valle Blanche to the ladders below the Mer de Glace Train station. The conditions on lower parts of the Mer de Glace were not so good anymore (only ice) but it was a great way of coming down the Tacul in June! People who were trying to climb the Mont Blanc de Tacul on crampons were having a very hard time because they were often until their middle in the snow and there were no tracks yet.... | |
| Posted Jun 12, 2006 3:34 pm | ||
| bbirtle | "Normal" Ski Route Date Climbed: May 1, 2006 | |
| Skis highly recommended... some people with crampons only were having a tough go at the many powdery bits especially. We were having a blast at the powdery bits especially.) See trip report. Hazy skies, fine good enough. Good snow making for good skiing. Good friends. Good mountain views. What more can you ask for? | |
| Posted May 1, 2006 10:28 pm | ||
| bbirtle | "Normal" Ski Route Date Climbed: Apr 21, 2006 | |
| Quite enjoyable climb and great snow to ski on the way down, but this seems to me a quite objectively dangerous route. There is serac fall danger nearly from the start to finish. The terrain is perfect for avalanche danger at 25-35 degrees. Although it didn't seem very dangerous considering the angle, even a small slide would could be deadly as you are constantly traversing above angry ice falls (terrain traps). All in all not a route I'd recommend, although aside from the two dangers mentioned, no technical difficulties and just sails right up. Good skiing potential! | |
| Posted Apr 21, 2006 2:08 pm | ||
| Jeroen Vels | Contamine-Negri (aka North Couloir) Date Climbed: Jun 1, 2003 | |
| At the far left end of the Triangle du Tacul is a couloir, the North Couloir. We climbed this route and abseiled down the Triangle (there is no abseil-piste!). See also my website here. | |
| Posted Mar 28, 2006 2:49 pm | ||
| Jeroen Vels | Normal route Date Climbed: Jul 31, 2001 | |
| I climbed the mountain severall times by different routes, but this is the one time I reached the actual summit. This time we climbed during the high-season wich was noticable by the very deep tracks you had to follow. See also my website here. | |
| Posted Mar 28, 2006 2:30 pm | ||
| Paddyrock | sunrise Date Climbed: Jun 7, 2005 | |
| camped on the mer du glas for a few days and did three 2 routes. cheree, and a rock route on one of the satellites check out the morning sun wow. | |
| Posted Mar 6, 2006 8:51 pm | ||
| cedricmtpl | Gabarrou-Albidoni Date Climbed: Jan 14, 2006 | |
| a very beautiful goulotte, with my friend gregory vannier a our guide sylvain empereur | |
| Posted Feb 20, 2006 7:39 pm | ||
| EQUUS | Normal route from Col du Midi Jul of 1989 | |
| My first 4000 m mountain after first short experience of Acute Mountain Sickness. | |
| Posted Feb 14, 2006 1:26 am | ||
| fdoctor | Date Climbed: July 2004 | |
| A success within a failure. Set off from the Cosmiques Hut at 4am with Rich Cross, but didn't feel good. This should have been the start of the Trois Blancs but only did Tacul and returned to the Cosmique exhausted. Next day discovered I've got two broken ribs from a fall on Aiguille Du Moine, no wonder I was struggling! | |
| Posted Jan 15, 2006 9:01 am | ||
| am89 | Route Climbed: Normal- up the the Tacul face Date Climbed: July 6th, 2005 | |
| We left early in the morning reached the summit from the Aiguille du Midi in under 2 hours, very windy on the shoulder. With no time to eat on the summit and a fierce storm coming from Italy we hurried back down. Reached Aiguille du Midi before 12 PM, lightning started shortly thereafter. First time climbing the Tacul, relatively easy, part of a preparation for the Mont Blanc. | |
| Posted Sep 27, 2005 9:44 pm | ||
| TodoVertical | Route Climbed: Normal (Guiding) Date Climbed: Some day of July 2005 | |
| Nice day !! It was 13 of us in the summit that day. | |
| Posted Sep 22, 2005 3:03 pm | ||
| roadmountain | Route Climbed: normal Date Climbed: 17 august | |
| Easy route! But a very beautiful view! | |
| Posted Aug 23, 2005 10:00 am | ||
| mountaindog | Route Climbed: Contamine Mazeud Date Climbed: August 2005 | |
| Nice mixed route. | |
| Posted Aug 18, 2005 5:12 pm | ||
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