We're here in the Chamonix Valley.
We've come for a few days to ski, touring ski mountaineering, use the lifts to give us a bit of extra height at the start of the day.
We ski off the midi and then you climb up to this other valley and do up this couloir, cross ridge and a couple of abseils down the other side.
The second day we did this route to the summit of the Agri e Argentia, which was a big climb up this glacier, really nice looking blind.
Basically a 4,000 meter summit and summits are always cool.
It's deep scary, you can be hurt with all type skiing, you can't even see the visibility.
The three calls route shares a start with the beginning of the coat route and that was fun but it was kind of a mistake because there was loads of people doing the coat route.
But after that we left that route and it was really cool.
We had this big descent into Latour but at the end the snow don't melt so it's kind of bushwacking.
In a way the Chamonix scene was about what I expected.
The spectadide visions of 50 aggro, dino fit, outfitted dudes with a handful of dudettes cramming into the bikini midi tram off to do various adventures.
And it's actually kind of, I don't know, I think it's kind of like the brotherhood or familyhood of people out spending time at the mountains doing intense things. I think that's pretty cool.
Gordon Gorge is a classic French sport climbing destination. It's really high exposed, sportly bolted limestone.
There's a lot of logistics around the climbing bag. You start at the top and you wrap all the way down to the bottom right now.
The main route that we wanted to climb was Oula. It's a really fun crack system. It takes gear now because of the bolts.
Climbing itself is fantastic. 800 feet probably, grey limestone walls, big, big exposure and very, very steep. You have these bulges swooping around.
I'd never really been aware that there were crack systems here. So it was kind of cool to go in there and do a super steep natural line from the valley to the top.
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