We meet the next morning in front of the Aiguille that will take us over 

3800m. It¡¯s 8h15, we enter the bin heading for the top!

Bad luck, the controller tells us that the tram is going to close early, at 

13h15. Our route is too long, we won¡¯t make it in time and we don¡¯t want to 

walk down the mountain, over 25 km and 2000 vertical meters. We decided to 

take a short cut in order to reach the top of our route in time.

We start to walk down the ridge of the Aiguille, on our left, 2000m lower is 

the town of Chamonix, scary vision... 

We reach the short cut on time and start walking up a couloir, there¡¯s a lot of snow, knee high, it¡¯s hard to 

progress, but we are happy...

After 45 minutes we reach the technical part of 

our route. It¡¯s a 5m wall, almost vertical with one big crack running through 

it. Gung-Yeal, master of climbing easily reaches the top, I follow, we are now 

in the last part, a superb chimney, 2 meters wide and 50m long that goes