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Skiing the impressive North face of Aiguille du Midi by the Eugster diagonal route. First descent by Laurent Giacomini in June 1977.

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I went off solo this beautiful day. Looking down from the upper section. Here the snow was quite hard in some places.

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Looking down to the half moon were Mallory and Eugster splits up.

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To enter the diagonal it was a small crux, pretty narrow passage, not possible to pass with my clumsy B-Squads. I down climbed it.

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Looking up from the half moon to upper “rocky” section. It was quite steep there, around 55° degrees.

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The Aiguille du Midi cable-car goes just over your head when you ski the upper part. Funny feeling!

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I met two Finnish guys after the first crux. We joined up and did the rappel(35m) in the middle of the west facing couloir together. This is just after the rappel.

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Looking down after the 35m rappel.

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I’m preparing the rope for the last rappel(10m).

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Looking up from the exit couloir.

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Skiing the exit couloir. There was a small crux in the middle(1.5m rock band) which we jumped over easily.

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Looking down the exit couloir.