Goulotte Chéré, North Face Triangle du Tacul:

Our second climb is more difficult, It¡¯s in the same area, on top of the 

Aiguille. The route is called: Goulotte Chéré (III, 4 350m) it¡¯s a step ice 

couloir, 80°-85°. We meet again at the same time, but today the weather is 

bad... We reach the top of the Aiguille, it¡¯s cold, windy and snowing! The 

ridge is very dangerous, the wind blows hard, the snow stings our eyes, and 

there is a lot of fog, visibility is bad. We walk down, the snow is deep and 

we have to put snow shoes on. 

A long walk in the snow and fog begins. One hour later we reach our start 

point- cool! Gung -Yeal starts climbing up a snow field to the first belay, i 

follow. After several pitches and a block of ice falling down we reach our 

last belay, my feet are numb, we have to go down quick or they will freeze. A 

few rappels later we start walking back to the Aiguille, it¡¯s still snowing and the wind is getting stronger. We reach the 

ridge and start walking back up, the ridge is very hard to walk up in bad 

conditions! We reach to the top after strugling against wind and snow, ouf!