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| Heikki | Voie Brunat-Perroux  Date Climbed: Jul 1, 2009 | |
| Good climbing and less crowded than the SE ridge. The view to Mt Blanc is really good from the top. We did get the hale and thunder for the decent. | |
| Posted Aug 21, 2009 4:21 am | ||
| klwagar | terrific routes Date Climbed: Aug 15, 2008 | |
| Did several routes on the Index. All were fun. The SE ridge was really busy. | |
| Posted Aug 26, 2008 10:48 am | ||
| Andy_Hornung | First Alpine Route Date Climbed: Sep 15, 1988 | |
| Bivi'd at the Index chairlift station and got an early start. Also as it was at the end of the season we had the route to ourselves. Nice introductory route. | |
| Posted Jul 18, 2008 1:47 pm | ||
| Zeddicus | South Face Date Climbed: Jul 8, 2006 | |
| Climbed a route through the south face of the Index. First few lengths were bolted but above the grassy ledge we changed over to an unbolted route which we followed to the summit. Nice first-day-of-the-holiday climb. | |
| Posted Nov 6, 2006 11:31 am | ||
| IceMonkey | SE Ridge Date Climbed: Jul 12, 2006 | |
| Luckily we had the route to ourselves, great weather till we got to the summit, then heard a clap of thunder. I think its the quickest I've ever deceanded a route!!! Good route. | |
| Posted Aug 9, 2006 12:49 pm | ||
| Jamie Ayres | Route Climbed: SE Arete Date Climbed: September 1985 | |
| My wife Jude and I had the entire mountain to ourselves that day. It was the last week of the season I recall. Caught the lift up, ambled up the route in the sunshine, abbed off and made it down the descent to just catch the last lift back down. There was no snow on the ground at all. Beautiful climb. | ||
| Posted Dec 16, 2005 11:17 am | ||
| denarne | Route Climbed: Voie Perroux Date Climbed: 14.08.2004 | |
| superb face, not too hard but in brilliant surroundings! excellent stances | ||
| Posted Nov 14, 2004 6:57 am | ||
| noah | Route Climbed: SE arete Date Climbed: summer 04 | |
| One word... EPIC....but a really nice day went with a big group 3 ropes of two doing the ridge and a rope of three taking a more direct route and meeting us on the upper section of the ridge, least just say we got all jammed up and it took long than expected. Missed the last cable car down and hiked down in the dark. But i had a nice day and the beer tasted good in the valley | |
| Posted Oct 16, 2004 6:40 pm | ||
| Tom Fralich | Route Climbed: SE Ridge Date Climbed: July 18, 2004 | |
| Climbed the route with Pete from England, who I met on arriving in Chamonix. Nice route - about 3 hrs round-trip from the cable car. | |
| Posted Jul 19, 2004 6:49 am | ||
| cherokee | Route Climbed: South-East Ridge Date Climbed: August 1, 1977 | |
| The L'Index is one of many easy climbs of the Aiguilles Rouges. I first climbed it in 1976 but can't remember the date, some time in May. I do remember there was a good amount of snow in the couloir coming down from the Col de L'Index which made the descent quick as we glissaded the lower section. If you are spending time on the Rouges side of the valley there is also the Chapelle De La Gliere, Clocher, Clochetons, Aig. De La Perseverance and the Aig. Du Pouce, these last two being a longer walk to get to. They are all very good for training, short climbs and good if the weather on the Mont Blanc side is bad (most of the routes are still good to climb in rainy weather). The bad is that these routes get a lot of traffic ( you can climb the L'Index in 1 hour if you are not trapped in an escalator line!), its most comical at times...but I do remember that I would always meet women climbers that were up to having a bottle of wine later in Chamonix! | |
| Posted Jun 5, 2004 11:54 am | ||
| Dan Bailey | Route Climbed: s.e.ridge Date Climbed: summer 2001 | |
| what a jolly little climb | |
| Posted Feb 10, 2004 11:58 am | ||
| il.rocciatore | Route Climbed: Voie Perroux Date Climbed: july 2003 | |
| My first alpine climb without a guide, just a friend and me. Everybody told us that it is a very popular mountain, so we left early in the morning to be the first on the route. But afterwards we appeared to be alone on the Voie Perroux, on a beautiful day in high season. We were lucky and had a wonderful day, glad we didn't take the SE Ridge. By the way, the Voie Perroux is well equiped. | |
| Posted Dec 6, 2003 4:04 pm | ||
| jsurinx | Route Climbed: SE-Ridge Date Climbed: 29 Aug 2001 | |
| Very nice and easy rock climbing the day after we did the Mont Blanc. We had to cut our rope in the descent( it got stuck) , so we lost our 50m double one. You better take the lowest stand to abseil ! | |
| Posted Aug 29, 2003 6:01 am | ||
| Arjan van Vliet | Route Climbed: SE Ridge Date Climbed: 05-08-2003 | |
| Excellent view on the Mont Blanc area. Easy route and a very good "warm-up" for other climbs. Make sure you take 2x50m rope for abseil. Have fun! Arjan van Vliet | ||
| Posted Aug 25, 2003 10:55 am | ||
| denarne | Route Climbed: southeast arete Date Climbed: 11 july 2003 | |
| crowdy indeed, but a superb airy arete, nice views and perfect to climb on large climbing boots, nice views over the mont blanc massif !!! | ||
| Posted Jul 20, 2003 6:19 am | ||
| Probemeister | Route Climbed: SE ridge Date Climbed: July 2001 | |
| Short, but nice. Descent gully was full of snow, which was not nice as we had no crampons | ||
| Posted Dec 5, 2002 3:50 am | ||
| Chamonix Man | Route Climbed: SE Ridge Date Climbed: august 2000 + 2001 | |
| Always very crowded. Wore mountaineering boots rather than stickies to train for other things. | |
| Posted Aug 10, 2002 8:35 am | ||
| mountaindog | Route Climbed: SE Ridge Date Climbed: July 2002 | |
| Nice rock route with great views. A bit crowded and we maneuvered around slower parties via a few route variations. | |
| Posted Jul 28, 2002 2:19 pm | ||
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