Friday 17 August 2007

Trip report : Midi l'Aiguille and la Mere de Glace

A damp day in a Swiss art gallery left me nice and fresh for this long walk out of Chamonix. Parking next to the cemetery (get there early) the usual climb up though the trees eventually opens out into the upland pasture.

First stop is le Chalet du plan l'aiguille before pushing on the the mid point cable car stop. From here the cloud was like a little yo-yo so having done the hard work and in hope rather than expectation I carried on to lac Bleu then across to the high point on the moraine above le glacier des pelereins.

Sadly the cloud never fully lifted so it was back to the masses at the cable car and onward across the landscape on le grande balcon nord over Signal forbes and its mass of cairns to look down on la mere de glace before following the railway back to the car

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