This year Jonna and I had the oppurtunity to spend a few days together in Chamonix. The wather was glorious and we climbed Mont Blanc du Tacul, 4,248 m together in perfect conditions. However, Jonna got very ill with altitude sickness. She vomited regullary all the way up from our BC and back down. I can’t understand that she made it! Strong willpower!!
After Tacul, Jonna had to fly home to take care of the kids while I had my mind set on Mont Blanc. Since my previous failures on Mont Blanc du to partners getting ill in altitude sickness I had a new plan. I would climb solo… But bad luck again. The weather forcast looked uttery bad and when I hiked up to the Mont Blanc base camp at Tête Rousse I was totally alone going up. Howerver, I surley met 100 people descending from either i successfull climb or just giving up due to the approaching storm. When I finally got there, people was packing up to leave. The next morning it was just mine and a russian guy left. Everybody else was gone. I stayed for three nights hoping for the weather to improve. When I finally had to leave and head down to fetch my plane home, the weather got better again… Just plain bad luck this year 😦
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- Acclimatization day at Aiguille du Midi
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- Acclimatization day at Aiguille du Midi
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- Acclimatization day at Aiguille du Midi
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- Jonna looking out over the Mont Blanc massif
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- Mirror, mirror
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- View from Aiguille du Midi
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- Mont Blanc du Tacul with Mont Maudit and Mont Blanc behind
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- View from Aiguille du Midi
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- The exit tunnel at Aiguille du Midi
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- Our camp on the glacier below Tacul
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- Hello!
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- Started early to climb Tacul
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- On the way up Tacul
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- On the way up Tacul
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- On the way up Tacul
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- On the way up Tacul
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- Aiguille du Midi from Tacul
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- Only a few meters left!
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- Jonna on the summit of Mont Blanc du Tacul 4,248 m
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- View from the summit of Tacul. We where first on the summit that morning 🙂
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- Matterhorn in distance
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- The summit pyramid of Tacul on the way down
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- Jonna had a hard climb this day, not feeling well at all due to altitude sickness
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- The tracks up’n down Tacul
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- Back at our BC
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- On our way back to Aiguille du Midi
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- Chamonix
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- Lets head for Mont Blanc – Tramway du Mont-Blanc @ Le Fayet
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- Tramway du Mont-Blanc @ Nid d’aigle
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- Walking totally alone upwards from Nid d’aigle
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- Everyone was packing up to leave when I arrived due to the upcoming bad weather
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- The clouds are closing in
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- Collapsed tent at Mont Blanc BC – Tête Rousse
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- BC Tête Rousse
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- Bound in the tent for three days, waiting for the weather to improve
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- Light over Saint-Gervais
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- Light’n rain over Saint-Gervais
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- Perhaps a spaceship is about to land?
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- I guess even the mountain crows disliked the bad weather
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- Mountain goats on the way back down to Chamonix and the next day flight home to Sweden… No summit this year 😦
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