[TR] Mont Blanc Traverse - Gonella Glacier - Three Summits Route 7/4/2016

[Lisa_D]

Trip: Mont Blanc Traverse - Gonella Glacier - Three Summits Route

 

Date: 7/4/2016

 

Trip Report:

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!), and I'm re-posting this because I didn't categorize it as a TR before. doh! I was able to upload pictures to my blog a few days ago when I had a better connection. Here it is:

 

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