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From Vajolet Towers - Delagokante
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Aiguille du Peigne
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Category: Climbing
Climbing – rock, ice, mountains, boulders, etc.
Sub-categorised for finer classification…
The Delagokante is the one that features in every Dolomite calendar, numerous postcards and picture books.
With the promise of an afternoon thunderstorm and aching, ageing limbs, I was pleased that we had decided to head for the relatively close Les Cheserys up at the Col des Montets.
After the adventures of yesterday we were looking for a more relaxed day today. We headed to the top of the Index chairlift.
We left Chamonix early and arrived at the Aiguille du Plan with frost still covering the grass – the north facing cliff we’d selected for today’s adventures was going to be cold!
How to define a perfect girls weekend outDoor? Switzerland 1000m in hight uphill bivouac at 2500m sleeping under the starry sky during the nights of the perseids surrunded by several 4000m mountains (Eiger, Wetterhorn, Schreckhorn, Finsteraarhorn, etc.) whisteling marmots to accompany our dinner and chamoise flocks arround us being the first ones on the route …
After what seemed like endless days of scraping, sanding, painting, and more painting of the apartment’s shutters [more on that latter with before and after pictures] Ian and I finally got out to do some climbing…
Despite the BBC’s promise that Saturday’s weather would be “dry for most” we woke to this summer’s usual situation, torrential rain! However, a day indoors wasn’t appealing so we decided to embark on a mountain-day with loads of different activities and objectives
I got invited on another climbing trip to the Dolomites by my friends Neil and Elizabeth and I can never resist being invited on climbing trips, especially when the lure of Italian food, mountains and the great company of Neil, Elizabeth and Friends is involved, and I even repaid the favour, by tempting my friend …
Laetitia’s parents were visiting at the weekend and somehow I managed to get a day-pass to go out climbing with Paul! (I think Laetitia had taken pity on me after having managed so little quality climbing this year due to the awful rainy weather we’ve been having all summer.) We chose Dow Crag, and Paul …
