On a knife edge directly NE of the summit of Mont de l'Etoile

This is the third image in a short series. Click here for the previous one. I'm on the NE ridge of Mont de l'Etoile, just a few minutes below the summit, and I can see a safe, wide area just a couple of minutes ahead. But to get there I have to cross this short knife edge ridge. Falling on the left would be the end, for it would mean bouncing down on the rocks for a few hundred meters. I'm unsure about the outcome of a fall to the right, but I don't want to find out the hard way. At least the slope is covered with snow, which I prefer over rocks, but it looks too steep to have a good chance at self arrest. And the problem is that I don't know what's further down. Does it simply get less steep, or are there rocks sticking out of the snow further down the slope? All in all, I better not fall then. The old trail is comforting. At the very least it shows other people have crossed here, and they didn't fall. And so I concentrate and take the first step. Click here for a look back from below this section. 11 March 2014.