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Great last 4 days out with Michael to start the summer alpine season with a bang.

On Monday we climbed the excellent Arête a Marion in the Aravis to warm up. Always excellent and quiet this time round.

Tuesday saw us traverse l’Argentine above Solalex over the border in Switzerland. Still as long as I remember tho just as good too and we saw no one all day 👌🏼

Yesterday we climbed the Tour Ronde SE ridge out and back. Definitely one of the best views in all of the Mont Blanc massif, mega.

Today we climbed the Dent du Geant from an early start at the Torino refuge. We were out in front all day and saw no one until our descent from the salle à manger.

An excellent first trip out this summer and great to see Michael put so much work in over the last 3 years we’ve been getting out together, steadily building up to climb these things he would have once thought impossible for him 💪🏼

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Another lap over the Brèche Puiseux in Chamonix today, this time with Arran. I’ve done this tour loads of times and think it’s one of the best Chamonix has to offer.

You get to ski (most of) the classic Vallée Blanche as an approach, have a pretty hefty skin to test your skills, a 300m climb up a couloir carrying your skis before 2 abseils take you into a super wild feeling combe under the north face of the Grandes Jorasses, one of the jewels in Chamonix’s crown.

It blends all the skills required and is a perfect ‘a bit more’ than ski touring, definitely into the realm of ski mountaineering.

A great descent on perfect spring snow under the Jorasses rounded off this quintessential Chamonix classic. Perfect training for Arran’s upcoming ski Mont Blanc 👌🏼

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