Voie Pellissier, Chamonix, Mixte
Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 7:09 pm
Tom promised to show me some mixed climbing that everyone's talking about. My fingers got really cold. It beats 10k of icy moguls though.
Starting up the bottom pitch.
Trying to figure out these sharp toolz.
It turns out that it's quite fun. Some nice sticky ice (M5?) in the gully, finished with some 5.9 rock crux.
Now it's getting more real.
Beautiful alpine granite with excellent gear.
Did I mention it was cold? It was.
Pulling the crux on the 5th pitch.
Gervasutti, looking dry. Jaeger (the line to the looker's right) had tracks on it from a certain mentally-ill swede.
Freeride alpinism.
Hauling-ass back to the train. We made it by about 2 minutes. Missing it would have meant certain death on the treacherous trail du bois.
Starting up the bottom pitch.
Trying to figure out these sharp toolz.
It turns out that it's quite fun. Some nice sticky ice (M5?) in the gully, finished with some 5.9 rock crux.
Now it's getting more real.
Beautiful alpine granite with excellent gear.
Did I mention it was cold? It was.
Pulling the crux on the 5th pitch.
Gervasutti, looking dry. Jaeger (the line to the looker's right) had tracks on it from a certain mentally-ill swede.
Freeride alpinism.
Hauling-ass back to the train. We made it by about 2 minutes. Missing it would have meant certain death on the treacherous trail du bois.