Mont Blanc Traverse

[Lisa_D]

On July 3-5, 2016, we climbed Mont Blanc in a really fun way: we drove under it using the 11 km Mont Blanc tunnel, stayed at the Italian Refugio Gonella, climbed up a remote route on the Italian side, traversed the summit, descended the classic Three Summits route, stayed at the French Refuge de Cosmiques, then used the Hellebronner gondola to get across and back down to the Italian side. It was beautiful, challenging, and memorable.

 

Once again, I don't have the wifi speed to upload pictures to cc.com (apologies!), but I was able to upload them to my blog a few days ago when I had a better connection. Here it is:

 

http://perchancedream.blogspot.fr/2016/07/mont-blanc-under-up-across-down-and-over.html

[ScaredSilly]

Nice trip and a great way to do something different.

[JasonG]

Now THAT is the way to climb Mount Blanc. That sounds really, really cool. Thanks!

[cfire]

Nice report. That is a cool way to get it done. Having done the 3 summits route up and down, I like your way instead of the soul crushing yo-yo's both ways that we got to "experience".