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I had a good feeling about the snowconditions in this Couloir and it turned out to be perfect. It was about 15 cm powder snow over a stable layer of packed snow.

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To be sure about the conditions I climbed the couloir. It tooked me about 2 hours and 15 min.

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You don't want to get stucked under this crazy serac. I moved as quickly as possible. Here I'm about to travers to the other side of the couloir.

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At the top I met two guys who hiked up the noth face. It was nice to have some company on the decent.

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The couloir is about 700 vertical meter hight with a average angle of 50 degrees.

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The big objekt danger on this route is this enormous serac.

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Andy about halfway down.

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The decent took us 25 minutes.

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A photo taken from the bergschrund up in the couloir.

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The whole route from the Aiguille du Midi station to the Montenvers train took 4 hours 45 minutes.

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The Jager Couloir next to Gervasutti was also in perfect conditions.

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