So the second part of the trip was to do the Haute Route via the glacier route!

I met Lillian and Abbie at the airport. They had spent the previous week in Corsica, and had some re-packing to do…

A little bit later, we were off!

We shipped our non-essentials off to Zermatt, and took a shuttle to Chamonix. The initial plan was to do some high altitude glacier walk or climb, to acclimate, and also to get some rope team essentials down. Abbie was feeling ill though, so Lillian and I decided to do the walk from Aiguille du Midi to Pointe Helbronner.

The first stop was to Le Fournil Chamoniard, for breakfast!

We grabbed sandwiches for lunch too.

Sunrise over the Vallée Blanche!

Smiles!

Good to go!

The not so knife-y knife ridge

Steep!

v(^_^)v

Mont Blanc

🙂

😀

Such a big pack…

Practice

Onwards!

The glacier was dryyyyyyy

Hmmm

Want to climb that

Want to climb that as well!

So sharp!

Such as mess!

It got hot in herrrrrre

Looking back

Teams from Italy

Heading towards France

Ta-da! we made it!

We ate our lunches and got coffees

#truth

We took the Gondola back

🙂

We crossed some of that

More tracks

Wanna climb that!

Can you spot the climbers?

Crushin’ it

OG