Saturday, March 03, 2012

Petit Envers - Col Superior du Plan (from Aiguille du Midi)

Back to the Petite Envers (4th time now?), but this time we stopped about half way and climbed up to the west up to the Col Superior du Plan, then skied back down the same way, back onto the Petit Envers again. It was a hot day, a bit cloudy at times (sometimes whiting out, but after short waits it would clear again). The climb up intensely hot and a bit tricky on the super springy snow (slush) and we had to step over a couple of 1 foot wide crevasses as well (though not too deep, perhaps only 8ft, from what I could see). Near the top we had to nip quickly past the hanging glacier / serac above us, then across the bergschrund (a type of crevasse at the point of steep slope where the lower weight of ice pulls it away from the ice anchored to the higher slope). That steep slope we had trouble walking up was great skiing down... More pics here.

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