2 weeks in Chamonix
I was climbing with Stephen and Jacqueline from Hong Kong for the last 2 weeks based from Chamonix but travelling about a bit to get the best weather and conditions. We started tthe trip by traversing the Crochu, on mon we were planning to traverse the Entreve but the Italian side of the range was clouded in so we went to the Col d'Aravis and traversed the arete Marion which was superb, we were the only people there.
The weather looked a bit mixed on tue so we climbed the Via Corde just getting caught by the rain at the very top. On wed headed to the Petit Aiguille Vert it was amazing how little snow there was, we had to climb a pitch of ice to get onto the ridge and turned back at about half height due to horrible black ice. We had a day off on Thur then traversed the Cosmiques arete on Friday in very dry but easy conditons, Sat we did some mutli pitch climbing at valorcine before heading through to Zermatt looking for more snow. Sunday was a perfect morning to traverse the breithorn and head down to the Ayas hut w where we climbed Pollox from before heading back to Chamonix. We had a rest on Tue then traversed the Entreve just ahead of the weather on wed, we got caught out on Thur in some really bad weather in the Aiguille Rouge then climbed a superb 12 pitch route at Machaby to finish the trip.