Mont Blanc Almost
I was climbing with Chris and Jane this week, the plan was Mont Blanc so we needed to get some appropriate acclimatisation. Luckily (as it's an aweful hut) the Albert premier hut was full so we drove round to Champex and walked up to the Trient hut on Sunday, on the way looking at glacier travel techniques. We arrived just as a storm arrived that continued all night, it was still raining at 7am, we drank tea until it got a bit drier then climbed the Pointe d'Orny behind the hut. We then descended to the valley and drove back to Chamonix catching the Aiguille du Midi then walking to the Cosmiques hut. On Tuesday morning we traversed the valley blanche then caught the Panoramic bubbles back to the Aiguille du Midi. The weather looked good for our attempt on Mont Blanc so we headed to the Tete Rousse hut, we left early on Thursday morning making steady progress to the vallot hut where jane ran out of legs. We headed back to the valley catching one of the later trains now on the summer time table.