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 :-)

Oltrefinale con Barbara

As its difficult to take pictures during climbing when you are two, some pictures of "not"-climbing :-)

prima colazione in our B&B @ Cisano sur Neva

Barbara @ spiaggia

cooking fresh Ravioli...mhmmmm

the garden of our B&B with: cats, dogs and guinea pig and sometimes a rabbit (where from? :-))

what are these white big balls falling from the sky?...its hailing :-)

arcobaleno @ Alassio

the view from our hike @ Verezzi

our new trousers...yeah!

 some yoga exercises...

 ...

Danilo Rea e Flavio Boltro @ Percfest Laigueglia

@ Céüse

BBQ master Seb Foissac @ Argentiere la Besse

after-party climbing in the rain @ Ailefroid

sunrise @ Motte flottante

amazing rock formation @ Céüse

 ...

Luca in "Les Colonette", 8a

 Luca's specality...next to climbing

my personal motivation to come back :-) St. Geroges Picos

 the loudest climber I ever saw/heard ;-)...Adam Ondra

on the way back home passing by best located COL

V E N E Z I A

Main street: Canal Grande at Rialto

Piazza S. Marco, Basilica S. Marco and the Campanile

View from the Campanile: con mia amica Carole

the 2 ladies with the fancy hats :-)

Rialto

Bus, resp. Traghetto gondola station

glas factory of the famous Murano glass

incredible handwork: laces

amazing colored houses on Burano

Vivaldi concert: le quattro stationi...

on the Gondola

the Gondolas with their Gondolieres

" les masques c'était pour qu'on ne reconnaisse pas celui qui fait la bêtise:)) "

Teatro la Fenice

finally we found it: il ponte dei sospiri

not only delayed, but canceled...TII= this is ITALIA :-)