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It was pretty extreme weather conditions on our trip to Mont Blanc du Tacul. Really cold and super windy. The weather wasn’t what meteo-france promised(80% sun…).It was overcast and almost storm in the couloir. This impressive couloir is 800vertical meters with an angle between 50°-55° degrees.

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I had the opportunity to ski with TeCrew: Rèmi Peschier, Flo Gex and Jérémi Audibert. Young Chamoniards and steepski specialists…

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We camped just below the couloir. It was quite cold in the tent. I forgot to bring extra socks…

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We started the climb at 06.15. The gully at the bottom of the couloir is quite short for the moment. It was easy to pass but the wind complicated it a bit. As you can see on this photo and the next we received snow from the wind right in our faces…

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It was 1000vertical meters from our tent up to the top of the couloir. We arrived there at 10.00 o’clock.

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We had all kind of snow quality: powder, crusty, chalk, ice...We did a 60m rappel throught the ice-gully at the bottom of the couloir. We were back at our camp at 12.00 o’clock.(It was so cold that my camera stopped to work after this photo)

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Photo taken by Tecrew: http://www.leblogdutecrew.blogspot.com/

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Photo taken by TeCrew: http://www.leblogdutecrew.blogspot.com/