Alpine Conditions Gallery

Forbes Arete, Aiguille du Chardonnet, 10/7/2010

Grand Couloir, Mont Blanc 18/7/2010

Ciarforon (3642m) NE Ridge & North Face, Italian Alps

North Face looking horrible and in no where near as good condition as 2 summers ago.

Maudit Seracs 28/7/2010

Mont Blanc du Tacul East Face 28/7/2010

Chere Couloir,

Mont Blanc du Tacul, 28/7/2010

North Face, Aguille du Midi 30/7/10

North Face Tour Ronde, September 10th 2010

Two climbers starting the face circled in Red. Mont Maudit and Kuffner Arete on right

The Great Freney Couloir, Mont Blanc, 14/9/2010

A vertical icefall at 4500m on the Italian side of Mont Blanc

Gabarrou Albinoni./ Modica Noury

Mont Blanc du Tacul East Face, Chamonix Mont Blanc, 8/1/2011

The Supercouloir, Mont Blanc du Tacul East Face

8/1/2011

Aiguille du Midi North Face 23/1/2011

Taken from across the Arve Valley, Chamonix Mont-Blanc

Swiss Route on Les Courtes North Face

Argentiere Basin, Chamonix, Jan 28th 2011

Pre de Bar to Pointe Domino, Argentiere Basin, Chamonix

Mountain Ice Conditions Jan 2011

Les Droites North Face, Argentiere Basin, Chamonix

Two teams on the face climbing 'The Ginat', IV,5. 28th Jan 2011

The Supercouloir, Feb 4th 2011

Mont Blanc du Tacul, Chamonix

Tour Ronde North Face 4th Feb 2011

Team of skiers crossing the head of the Vallee Blanche

Gabarrou Albinoni & Modica Noury, Feb 9th 2011

Climbers on the classic Chamonix Ice Goulottes, Gabarrou Albinoni (upper left) & Modica Noury (upper centre), Feb 9th 2011. A team also on Pinocchio, East Face Mont Blanc du Tacul, Chamonix

The Grand Couloir on Mont Blanc's Gouter Route

7/6/2011. Cables not fixed but work to establish them going on.

North Face Tour Ronde 25/7/2011

Snowy conditions in late July 2011

Rockfall on the West Face of the Petit Dru, 11/9/2011

Taken from the Aiguille de l'Index at about 1000

Dust Cloud Falls Over The Chamonix Valley After A Rockfall on the West Face of the Petit Dru, 11/9/2011

Second Rockfall on the West Face of the Petit Dru, C. 1130, 11/9/2011

The West Face of the Petit Drus, Chamonix

After the two large rock falls on 11/9/2011