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Pointe Sup. Pierre à Joseph. Me and Max went to Talèfre and skied the North/North-East Couloir in very good conditions.

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We went up to Aiguille du Midi at 1230 o'clock and skied Vallé Noir down to the Leschaux Glacier. From there we used the ladders up to the Couvercle refuge.

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It was a pleasant walk up to the refuge.

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Grandes Jorasses. It was 595 vertical meters climbing to the refuge.

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It took 2h and 45min to climb up to the refuge.

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I cooked thai-food for dinner but Max thought it was to hot...

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We started at 06.00 o'clock.

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The bergschrund was easy to cross.

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The couloir is 350 vertical meters hight and 50 degrees steep.

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Deep snow the last 50 meters...

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It took us 1h and 30min to climb the couloir. 910 vertical meters from the refuge to the summit.

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The view over the Mont Mallet Glacier and the Capucin couloir.

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South face of les Courtes.

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It was a big rock at the beginning that we had to rappel throught. Just about 10 meters.

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We started the descent at 10.45 o'clock.

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The snow was perfect!

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1835 vertical meters skiing from the summit down to Montenvers train.

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The route took almost 8h from start to the Montenvers train-station. You have to walk a lot to the train-station because of the lack of snow.