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ISM August 2002
Here are my holiday snaps from two weeks mountaineering in the Alps with ISM. Apologies for the poor quality - not only am I rubbish at photography but my scanner is shite too!
Summits + Skills, 4 - 10 August
Rainbows after storm in Leysin
Looking down on Leysin
Maurice on La Riondaz with the Leysin Tours behind
View from Mayreneuse
Looking up the Moiry g;acier to Pointe de Mourti - Wed pm
Pat and Thomas showing us how it is done
Pat and Thomas showing us how it is done - 2
Pat about to top out.
Team Thomas start to climb
And they've got a bit further in this shot
Pointe de Mourti
Pointe de Mourti (L) and Tas de l'Ano (R)
Early morning on the glacier. Rick in the foreground.
Brendan laughs in the face of the summit.
The route to the top.
Brendan and Rick sorting gear.
Looking back down the ridge.
Pte de Bricola, Grand Cornier and Dent Blanche from the summit.
Pat and Brendan at the top
View across the glacier to the Zinalrothorn.
Looking back down to the hut.
Brendan corrupts the virgin at the top
Me on steep glacier ice - rad, GNARLY, etc etc.
Another shot of me in finest Vertical Limit pose.
Classic Alpine Ascents, 11 - 17 Aug
Aiguille d'Argentiere, Aiguille du Chardonet and Grande Fourche from the hut.
The same from the glacier in the early morning sun
The Grande Lui (R)
Aiguille d'Argentiere
Grande Lui and Aig de l'A Neuve
Climbers on the Glacier de Ravines Rousses
Almost identical to the last one
Sunrise over the Pre-Alpes on the way up to the Domes de Miage
A quick break on the way up the glacier
A mountain (no name as I don't have a map for this area!)
Looking up towards the Col des Domes (I think)
Aiguille de Glacier (?)
Teresa, John and Penny on the way up to the Col.
Climbers arriving at the Col
Mont Blanc peeping from behind the first Dome.
The ridge to the middle Dome
Teams heading up the ridge.
Watching the other teams descend from the middle Dome.
The middle Dome with Mont Blanc behind
Nick and Alex at the top of the Aiguille de la Berangere, last peak on the ridge.
Looking back to the middle Dome
A bit busy at the top.
Looking up the glacier from halfway up Mont Tondu,
Domes de Miage (L) and Mont Blanc (background) from Mont Tondu.