Comments on: Mont Blanc Late season Ascents http://mountainnomad.co.uk/blog/2005/09/04/mont-blanc-late-season-ascents/ Life at the foot of Mont Blanc Tue, 06 Jan 2009 04:04:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Patrick Guinard http://mountainnomad.co.uk/blog/2005/09/04/mont-blanc-late-season-ascents/comment-page-1/#comment-35 Patrick Guinard Sun, 22 Jan 2006 16:01:49 +0000 http://mountainnomad.co.uk/blog/2005/09/04/mont-blanc-late-season-ascents/#comment-35 If you were looking at the Piton des Italiens on the 28th August, I was there with my daughter. Delayed at Gonella because of the rain at 1am, we left at 4am and consequently found ourselves on the Summit quite late 15:30. Just the 2 of us with a little plane circling above. Our friends Doug and Graham made it an hour before us and waited for us near the Bosses to come down with us to the Gouter. If you were watching, you must have been wondering why we were so late, but we had a terrific time, much better than in June 1987 when I first climbed via the Gouter route. If you were looking at the Piton des Italiens on the 28th August, I was there with my daughter. Delayed at Gonella because of the rain at 1am, we left at 4am and consequently found ourselves on the Summit quite late 15:30. Just the 2 of us with a little plane circling above. Our friends Doug and Graham made it an hour before us and waited for us near the Bosses to come down with us to the Gouter. If you were watching, you must have been wondering why we were so late, but we had a terrific time, much better than in June 1987 when I first climbed via the Gouter route.

]]> By: TeleSimian http://mountainnomad.co.uk/blog/2005/09/04/mont-blanc-late-season-ascents/comment-page-1/#comment-14 TeleSimian Tue, 13 Sep 2005 09:26:45 +0000 http://mountainnomad.co.uk/blog/2005/09/04/mont-blanc-late-season-ascents/#comment-14 Thanks for your comment Samantha - nice to hear from you. Bad luck that you didn't make the summit - Better luck next time! I still think having a go is all part of Mountaineering, and you learn something new every time - even if you don't make the summit. The weather has definitely been very unstable this summer - a pattern of clear weather followed by bad storms seems to have set in, and this does make the mountains fairly dangerous - Fresh snow followed by warm weather brings big avalanche risk, not to mention the high winds, and storms! I think you were advised well! The only time I managed to get into the mountains this year was in very bad conditions, but we did manage to make the summit of the Dome du Miage, though not by the route we wanted! http://mountainnomad.co.uk/blog/2005/07/07/live-climb-experiment/ Thanks for your comment Samantha - nice to hear from you. Bad luck that you didn’t make the summit - Better luck next time! I still think having a go is all part of Mountaineering, and you learn something new every time - even if you don’t make the summit.

The weather has definitely been very unstable this summer - a pattern of clear weather followed by bad storms seems to have set in, and this does make the mountains fairly dangerous - Fresh snow followed by warm weather brings big avalanche risk, not to mention the high winds, and storms! I think you were advised well!

The only time I managed to get into the mountains this year was in very bad conditions, but we did manage to make the summit of the Dome du Miage, though not by the route we wanted!

http://mountainnomad.co.uk/blog/2005/07/07/live-climb-experiment/

]]> By: Samantha Hankinson http://mountainnomad.co.uk/blog/2005/09/04/mont-blanc-late-season-ascents/comment-page-1/#comment-13 Samantha Hankinson Tue, 13 Sep 2005 09:03:50 +0000 http://mountainnomad.co.uk/blog/2005/09/04/mont-blanc-late-season-ascents/#comment-13 I attempted to summit Mont Blanc on the 07/09/05, but the weather conditions were not sutable and was advised by the met that we should head down, as did the Guardian of the Goutier Hut, which is most unusal. No one summited the Blanc that day. 200 kph on the top with complete a white out, very scary stuff. I attempted to summit Mont Blanc on the 07/09/05, but the weather conditions were not sutable and was advised by the met that we should head down, as did the Guardian of the Goutier Hut, which is most unusal. No one summited the Blanc that day. 200 kph on the top with complete a white out, very scary stuff.

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