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315am wake up, breakfast at 345am, at 4am we are out the door with our headlights and off for the final leg of the climb: the refuge to the summit at 4065m It is a beautiful night, the half moon is extremely bright and we can see stars and mountains around. We are one of the […]

This is the first leg of the climb, the trek from Pont to the refuge. It’s a beautiful day, sunny and warm. We trek from 1900 to 2700 in just around 2 hours. We grab lunch at the refuge and have to wait until 3pm to get the bed allocation. It’s a container with 3 […]

Wake up in our beautiful hotel Lo Fleye in St-Pierre, near Aoste. Breakfast of desserts, cakes and bread and amazing cappuccinos. We have decided to go trekking and hopefully find some snow around 3000m altitude to rope in, put on crampons and practice our skills before the main climb. We head up the mountain to […]

After months looking forward to some time
In the mountains we are finally here for our Gran Paradiso climbing weekend