Skiing the Eugster Couloir, Aiguille du Midi North Face

Описание: Another incredible line accessibile directley from the Aiguille du Midi. Starts as for the Mallory, cutting across the main face onto the ridge lookers right until the demi lune, then cuts left into a couloir that winds all the way down to just above the mid station. Dropping in from the summit ridge onto the main face is pretty intense - patches of bare ice were visible on this steep and hugely exposed slope, and striaghtlining it across these onto the better snow across the face is the only way to go. Managing the sluff from multiple parties on the face the day after a big storm was also challenging - managing multiple parties on a line like this is quite a unique problem in Chamonix that we dont experience back in New Zealand! 2x raps to get through rock / ice bands - in fat years can be skiied without these. After a late spring May storm there was incredible snow on the upper section, and it was fully on, getting faceshots down the Midi North face was a pretty unreal experience. As we got to the lower part of the couloir the snow got firmer and there were a few icy secitons, I downclimbed about 50m to avoid the worst of the ice. An incredible last day in Chamonix for 2024
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