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Overview
Overview
Having completed my expedition in Patagonia, it was time to put in place a plan to build towards Everest. Having read Kenton Cool's autobiography, "One Man's Everest", the way in which he approached mountaineering and guiding resonated with me, so I sought out his guiding company, Adventure Base, and proposed a 4-year plan with multiple expedition suggestions which I thought would give me the skills and experience I needed to be a competent and relatively self-sufficient mountaineer on Everest.
Adventure Base and Kenton were good enough to look through and approve the rough plan and the first of those trips was a week-long alpine skills course in the Mont Blanc Massif being guided 1:2:1 by their co-owner Guy Willett, an IFMGA guide and exceptional ski mountaineer (particularly telemark). Needless to say, it was again a brilliant trip where I learnt the foundations of being a mountaineer, with the skills learnt being regularly called upon in later trips.
Photos
Photos
Arriving in Chamonix, looking up at Mont Blanc
A little scrambling fun to get used to moving with ropes and covering pitches
The view from the lift on the way to the Aiguille du midi arete
Looking back up the arete with Guy
On the glacier doing some skills training - ice axe anchors etc
I'm not that fat - gloves and hats stuffed in my pockets!
Some more scrambling along the arete near the Cosmique Hut
An additional little scramble because we could, getting used to moving on rocks in crampons
Finished at the Cosmique Hut
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