Dienstag, 31. Juli 2012

Bonatti-Tabou on Chandelle du Tacul

My new life as an assistant doctor is not as bad as expected :-)
On Friday I had the chance to go with Luca to Bonatti-Tabou on Chandelle du Tacul.
Just amazing!!!
 Luca in Bonatti-Tabou
 ...searching for the way :-)
 Chandelle-Grand Capucin-Trident
 Luca on the traverse
 the amazing 6b+-pitch
 direction to Mt. Blanc
 Trident (background: Dent du Geant)
 happy on the top (background: Grand Capucin)
 the helicopter that filmed a team on Bonatti-rout on Grand Capucin

Grazie mille Luca!!!

Week of dreams

All the best moments and feelings from last TMAC-stage in Chamonix put in one video:
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Sonntag, 1. Juli 2012

TMAC stage 4: CHAMONIX

What an amazing week again. Lucky as we are, we got some good weather aswell.
We climbed:
1 day: Il rosso e il vampirla, Lomasti, Italy
2 day: Traverse of petits Charmoz
3 day: Salluard route on the Pointe d'Adolphe-Rey
4 day: La fin de Babylone on the Brévent
5 day: Cotamine-Vaucher on the Gendarme du Peigne
6 day: Cosmique's Ridge

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Report from Manu
Report from Xavier

some pics (from the members of TMAC):
 our photographer David Ravel
 me on Salluard
 approach to Brevent; background: Mont Blanc
Bojan, Isa and Milos on Brevent
 our basecamp
 Seb and me on Traverse des Petits Charmoz
 me on Lomasti, la Rossa e il Vampirla
 Face Sud of Aiguille du Midi
my favorit pitch on Contamine-Vaucher
Neil and me in Contamine-Vaucher
 Envers des Aiguilles
 my small mouse...all the time with me
 the route we climbed on Lomasti
 Seb, one of the mountain guides
 just nice!!!

Around Courmayeur

 Cervinio and Dent Blanche from Val Grisenche
 Sang climbing "il porco" @ Bethaz
on the summit of Pyramides Calcaires
 Dent du Géant from Torino
 in the Burgasser route
 Luca leading the icy pitch with down jacket :-)
 frère et soeur
 the virgin on the summit (4013)
Sang and Luca with Mt. Blanc

Up in the sky :)

 me with Xandi
 Nikolay with Beno
Nikolay having fun :-)