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| skileraar | North Face; Gully variations  Date Climbed: Feb 9, 2006 | |
| Climbed halfway and returned because of bad weather. Perfect acclimatization route for other gully's in the Argentiere valley! | |
| Posted Sep 7, 2008 3:51 pm | ||
| Roel | Route Climbed: Voie Normal - S Date Climbed: Jun 22, 2007 | |
| Depuis bivacco Fiorio Dans la neige | ||
| Posted Jun 25, 2007 7:02 pm | ||
| Bas Visscher | climbed gully variations | |
| Climbed this variant on the charlet route. Alpine ice 85 degrees, returned due bad weather halfway up | |
| Posted Nov 6, 2006 9:43 pm | ||
| andrea.it | Route Climbed: south ridge Date Climbed: 28-07-2005 | |
| Italian normal route from Fiorio bivac. | |
| Posted Jul 29, 2005 10:30 am | ||
| Romain | Route Climbed: Normal Italian Route (Rif. Fiorio) Date Climbed: July 1998 | |
| Short and fun scramble up the South face. A climber with altitude sickness had to be helicoptered off from just below the summit. The Rif. Fiorio is superbly placed over the Pre de Bar glacier. | |
| Posted Aug 8, 2002 1:12 pm | ||
| Henning Lege | Route Climbed: normal Date Climbed: 18-july-1999 | |
| The year before, it seemed to be neccessary for me to climb a 4000m peak. Now, I wanted to do a normal climb ... Since I bought the map of the region, the Bivouac du Dolent in Switzerland attracted me unexplicably. Very shortly before actually going there (a friday noon in a book shop of downtown Basle), I found out, that the normal route to Mt. Dolent does not start here, but from Bivacco Fioro in nearby Italy. This italian bivouac is easily reached from Switzerland. When it is crowded, you might have to sleep in one of the upper beds, reached by climbing wooden overhangs. But I was lucky to secure a bed on ground level. When my alarm clock rang for the first time, everybody was still asleep, and I decided to postpone the start. When it rang the second time, everything was as quiet as before. Hmm. No, I decided to neglect the decision of everybody else, and started to get ready. I was very quiet, I swear. Nonetheless, soon everybody else was moving as well. Strange, that I, the very greenhorn, apparently would influence other climbers ... I will never forget the final section from the glacier towards the summit ridge. There are about 200m of altitude on 30-45% along the fall line. This can be fun - if you are alone. I started the downclimb, when everybody else seemed to be resting. Unfortunately, a rope party of two nice but hot tempered french speaking girls decided to follow immediately. Their crampons were either just one step above my fingers, or there was nothing but 20 cm of thin air between those crampons and my naked face. My second offer to let them girls pass was less polite than the first one, and solved the problem ... This summit slope has a section, where the crampons hit rock (in summer) :-(( When my belgian partner and I (if we had known, we would meet, one of us might have brought a rope ...) had left the rather smooth glacier, there was all the time in the world to relax, talk, eat and drink, view, enjoy, and dream :-) | ||
| Posted Jun 11, 2002 9:44 am | ||
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