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Rod's Euro 2010 - Trip Report 11-Jul-2010 At 6:43:11 AM rod

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L'Envers des Aiguilles 3/3

...and so passed the rest of the time: great weather (clouds so arranged as to merely optimise the fantastic scenery); fantastic climber's only ambience at the cabane and really impressive, inspiring lines where you just gave it a go and sometimes a pitch seemed easy, sometimes a pitch seemed crazy hard all at the same grade. Apparently nothing anyone else encountered came close to my desperate "4c" chimney and we were all impressed by the ballsyness of some of the other teams we came across.

The following shot was taken on a rest day and shows that you don't have to go on a mission each day: the approach is about 10 seconds from the cabane past the marmottes.