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| johan | 10 year's anniversery climb!  Date Climbed: Jul 30, 2011 | |
| 10 year´s successful anniversery climb! A lot of new fresh snow made it rather easy and we were not so exposed as last time on the petit bosses. Wonderful weather on the summit day but snowing lightly during the ascent the day before and during the night. Not many people due to the bad weather on the assent but more coming up on the descent. Thanks goes to my Spanish companions for a very nice trip! | |
| Posted Jan 31, 2012 11:49 am | ||
| mreiter1 | Success Solo Date Climbed: Sep 1, 2007 | |
| Aiguille du Goûter | |
| Posted Dec 11, 2011 1:59 pm | ||
| PUCHMAN | exelent weather nice viev Date Climbed: Aug 11, 2009 | |
| Ascent via The Three-Mont-Blanc route (Cosmiques), descent the same route. | |
| Posted Nov 25, 2011 11:05 am | ||
| Silvia Mazzani | Gouter Route Date Climbed: Sep 6, 2004 | |
| A great peak!!! | |
| Posted Nov 16, 2011 5:23 pm | ||
| goodwilson | Gouter Route Date Climbed: Sep 14, 2011 | |
| good weather, complete within 2 days | |
| Posted Nov 12, 2011 2:20 pm | ||
| Rafal | Solo traverse Date Climbed: Sep 26, 2011 | |
| Awesome weather!! Ascent via The Three-Mont-Blanc route (Cosmiques), descent through The Gouter route. | |
| Posted Nov 11, 2011 4:26 am | ||
| hunterslee | Great View Up There Date Climbed: Aug 19, 2010 | |
| Climbed the normal route, stayed at the Goutier hut...would like to go back and climb a more technical line next time. | |
| Posted Oct 23, 2011 12:56 am | ||
| mills | fun mountain | |
| weather was warm so we could not climb the kuffner/fronteer ridge, we decided on the spur of a moment to ascend mont blanc by the normal toute (goutier) stared off at 3.30am and summited at 7.30am, glorious sunrise and had the summit to ourselves, tedious walk down to the goutier, had a beer then headed back to chamonix. | |
| Posted Oct 10, 2011 3:59 pm | ||
| darien17 | Great climb Date Climbed: Jun 12, 2011 | |
| Normal route from Tette Rouse to the summit we have few days bad weather so we had to stay in Chamonix,after a storm up the mountain was very stong wind but we decided to go up.Started from Les Houches with cable car then with train only 200 metter up.We started our hike to the Tette Rouse hut,it was cold day aroud -3 at 2000m high we had snow all the time on path.Also on grand couloir and on all rocks was deep snow and ice.We started at 2am from Refuge du Goûter to the top,we was on top of Mont Blanc at rgoue 6am beautiful day but very very cold with high winds, it was -30 with high winds 65 km/h | |
| Posted Sep 26, 2011 4:38 am | ||
| Flattlander | Gouter Route Date Climbed: Sep 10, 2011 | |
| Great weather. Chamonix kicks ass. | |
| Posted Sep 21, 2011 4:29 pm | ||
| geeman | A lucky climb Date Climbed: Aug 8, 2011 | |
| Climbed via the Gouter route. Hiked to the Gouter refuge in poor windy weather,betting on an improvement during the night (forecast was for the weather to clear up but for the wind to remay strong at 4000m) At 9pm, the wind died down...Great night sky when we started the climb a 3am. Great sunny day all along, no wind. Reached the summit at 6.30am, no crowd, just my buddy and I. | |
| Posted Sep 11, 2011 5:36 am | ||
| dmiki | 2nd unsuccessful attempt Date Climbed: Aug 29, 2011 | |
| Day 1: Hiked up to Tete Rousse from Les Houches through the lovely forest and the soon to become standard trail they are currently securing. Still had enough time to go up to Gouter but opinion was divided about the Grand Couloir. Day 2: Set out at 2 after a restless night and minor acclimatisation issues. The couloir had been unstable throughout the night and was also tricky when we tried to cross. Reached the new Gouter hut at dawn. Lost some gloves while fixing a loose crampon on Dome du Gouter (had spares luckily). Turned back at Vallot around 8 o'clock due to the ~50 km winds and fatigue. (Many people summited but quite a few people turned back.) 2 Spaniards had a near-fatal fall on the loose rocks below Gouter on the Bionassay side. The couloir was again in full motion, but at least we could see what we were up against. Hiked down to Les Houches the same day and did some very enjoyable ferratas in the following days. | |
| Posted Sep 2, 2011 10:47 am | ||
| Jake | Strong winds Date Climbed: Aug 26, 2011 | |
| My climbing partner Marcin and I reached the summit of the Mont Blanc at 8:42am on the 26th of August. We found the small Swedish flag on the summit. The wind was very strong (60km/h) and we didn't see anyone else from the Vallot refuge on this day except two Czech climbers who turned back before the final ridge. Our calculation of the chill factor was -35 Celsius degrees. We came via Italian Normal Route and this was the best climb in my life even despite the really strong wind and clouds. We were the last people descending towards Gouter Refuge on that day leaving the dark clouds behind us. The descent via Grand Colouir was scary and stressful among the flying stones reaching the size of the large backpack. We have used the tram from the Nid d'Aigle to get to the Les Houches on the same day. I would recommend The Italian Normal Route to everyone - it's a beautiful, classic Alpine route with the elements of rock and ice climbing, glacier crossing (event that negotiating the Glacier du Dome in the darkness was quite tricky) and good exposure factor. The Gonella Hut is the most pleasant place to stay in this part of the Alps and the owner (David) was really friendly and professional. The greatest days out on the hills so far! | |
| Posted Aug 30, 2011 6:33 am | ||
| skotty | An epic traverse Date Climbed: Aug 18, 2011 | |
| An epic traverse | |
| Posted Aug 18, 2011 11:26 am | ||
| NKING100 | Traverse Date Climbed: Aug 1, 1993 | |
| From Vallot hut to Dome du Gouter via and Bosse ridge. then Mont Maudit and Mont Blanc du Tacul and down | |
| Posted Aug 18, 2011 9:27 am | ||
| starybaran | gouter Date Climbed: Jul 11, 2011 | |
| Les Houches-summit-les houches cca 30 hours. Beautiful walk and "climb", only the number of the people makes impression less interesting. | ||
| Posted Aug 14, 2011 12:53 pm | ||
| ferbat | Mont Blanc Date Climbed: Jun 25, 2011 | |
| Impressive sun rise. I got it second attempt | ||
| Posted Aug 12, 2011 5:05 am | ||
| johan | 3rd time high! Date Climbed: Jul 30, 2011 | |
| With a luck in the weather (snowed and was cloudy hours before the summit attempt from Gouter) we managed to summit under perfect weather conditions. Quite a lot of snow for being in the end of July (recent snow) which made the Grand Couloir just perfect to climb (crampons a must). | |
| Posted Jul 31, 2011 4:27 pm | ||
| atavist | Salvation Date Climbed: Jul 18, 2011 | |
| One week in the alps with nary a day under the sun. Managed to get on top of the big white mountain. Spent a day at tete rousse waiting out a fresh dump. Only passed about 5 people in all on summit day. Definitely encountered more mountain goats than people! | |
| Posted Jul 25, 2011 3:39 am | ||
| domipost | Gouter route Date Climbed: Aug 4, 2010 | |
| Nice climb after an unsuccesful first attempt the day before. Third group on the summit, so not yet too crowded :) | |
| Posted Jun 25, 2011 1:49 pm | ||
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