Posted by Champ on September 17, 2009, 4:07 am
1. Dani Pedrosa [1]
2. Neal Champion
Of course, the second in this list snowboarded back down from near the
top...
[1] http://www.motogp.com/en/news/2009/Pedrosa+makes+Mont+Blanc+climb
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Champ
neal at champ dot org dot uk
Posted by Jérémy on September 17, 2009, 6:26 am
4ax.com:
> http://www.motogp.com/en/news/2009/Pedrosa+makes+Mont+Blanc+climb
I wonder why they started so late.
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Jeremy
R1200RT
Posted by Champ on September 17, 2009, 6:48 am
>4ax.com:
>> http://www.motogp.com/en/news/2009/Pedrosa+makes+Mont+Blanc+climb
>I wonder why they started so late.
heh. I think when we were planning to use that route, we were going
to set off about 2~3am.
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Posted by Jérémy on September 17, 2009, 7:57 am
>
>>
>>> http://www.motogp.com/en/news/2009/Pedrosa+makes+Mont+Blanc+climb
>
>>I wonder why they started so late.
>
> heh. I think when we were planning to use that route, we were going
> to set off about 2~3am.
Reveille is 1am if you want to join the trudging horde, so leaving at 2am
would be about right.
Although, if your other post on this subject is anything to go by, you
weren't planning to use that route anyway. I suspect you have the Gouter
hut mixed up with the Cosmiques. And a bergschrund mixed up with god
alone knows what.
You sure you ended up in Italy? :-)
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Jeremy
R1200RT
Posted by Champ on September 17, 2009, 8:47 am
>Although, if your other post on this subject is anything to go by, you
>weren't planning to use that route anyway. I suspect you have the Gouter
>hut mixed up with the Cosmiques.
Christ, you're right!
We did stay in the Cosmiques for a night of acclimatisation in the
week of prep we did.
>And a bergschrund mixed up with god alone knows what.
Hmmm. As it was explained to me...the route from the Cosmique hut
starts on glacier, and ends on mountain, so you have to cross the
bergstrund. Usually some guides go and bolt a ladder in place as the
'ascent' season starts (late march?) but the year I did it the gap was
bigger enough to drop a bus down, and would have required us to abseil
into the crevasse and ice climb out of the other side.
>You sure you ended up in Italy? :-)
We paid the heli pilot in lire, if that helps...
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Champ
We declare that the splendor of the world has been enriched by a new beauty: the
beauty of speed.
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neal at champ dot org dot uk
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