Tag Archives: Chamonix
Chamonix Photos 3 – The Mer Du Glace
My photos from a trip inside the Mer Du Glace.
The entrance
Translucent ice
Refracted light
Solid glacier ice
Chamonix Photos 2 – Le Tour
One of the walks we went on started from Le Tour and went over the Aiguillette des Possettes after a brief wander into Switzerland. The weather was excellent, being neither too hot nor too cold, clear and sunny all day. The terrain was fairly easy to walk over too. Here’s today’s selection from a much larger set.
The summit
Avalanche on Mont Blanc
Mont Blanc
Snagged from the Telegraph…
A helicopter searching the slopes of Mont-Blanc has been unable to trace the climbers – five Austrian and three Swiss – who were swept away by the avalanche at 3am on Sunday on western Europe’s highest peak.
The climbers were scaling the Mont-Blanc du Tacul – one of the peaks in the range – in perfect weather conditions, but were suddenly subjected to what one mountain guide described as “a scene from the apocalypse”… Continue reading
Chamonix Photos 1 – The Aiguille Du Midi
Since I have taken a lot of photos, I’m going to be spending the next few days picking out the best and displaying them here.
To begin, here are photos from my cable car trip up the Aiguille Du Midi
The lower viewing platform
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Travelling is tedious
This is nuts. We go home tomorrow, back to merry old Englandshire in an EasyJet flying toothpaste tube/cattle transporter. Our flight leaves at 4pm, but air travel tradition dictates we arrive two hours early for check in (a thirty second process, naturally). To make things even more tedious, our bus from Chamonix leaves at 7am – yes, in order to arrive ready for the flight that leaves at 4pm, I… Continue reading