The headwall of the glacier toule with Mont Blanc behind.
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Straight lining over to the skinning section to reach the Col.
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Looking across the Vallée Blanche to the Aiguille de Midi and the Grand Envers.
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The skinning leads up and right to a col below the Dent du Géant.
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Looking into the Couloir Marbrées under sporty avy conditions. Stability testers working in parallel....
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Mont Blanc de Tacul with the Couloir de Diable prominent.
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The upper couloir is a big slide zone..
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Traversing into the Marbrées.
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Stopping in safe zone on the upper couloir.
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Looking down the drainage.
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Looking at the upper Marbrées.
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The lower glacier.
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The pow keeps on coming on the shaded aspects.
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Not bad.....
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Enjoying the lower limit on the pow.
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Traversing off left.
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Gotta focus on the turns to stay up on the crusty mank.
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Heading for the shaded woods down and left.
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Looking over the lower cliffs down to Courmayeur.
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The Peuterey Ridge and Mont Blanc.
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The Marbrées Couloir is the line on the left.
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Vertical profile of the descent.
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GPS track on Google Earth.
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Davide and Morgan at the bar. Davide did the first snowboard descent of Mont Blanc's West face, which Morgan is skiing for charity in May.
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