Erol's pictures from Alps 2002

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Simon, Erol, Stu.  Bivvie site above albert 1er hut

The boyz and gal at bivvie site

Bivvie site and tour glacier. Stu, Lea, simon

Sunset on Aguille de Chardonay

 

Heading up Tour glacier towards Aguille de Tour.  The rock on the glacier shades the ice from the sun.  The glacier melts all around it leaving the rock on a pedestal.  Don't bivvie under one!

Table de Roc ridge on Aguille de Tour

Table de Roc ridge on Aguille de Tour, Stu and Lea

Table de Roc ridge on Aguille de Tour.  Lea

Table de Roc ridge on Aguille de Tour, Stu, Lea, me

Table de Roc ridge on Aguille de Tour.  It gets a bit narrower after the Table.  Not even my shiny chrome lid shows up very well.

Saleina glacier from Saleina hut.

 

A very relieved Lea after we finally got to the Saleina Hut.

Erol at Midi

Mont Blanc from Midi

Bivvie site inside machinery corridors at Midi.

Valle Blanche and Dent du Geant from Midi

Sun set over Mont Blanc from Midi

Leggy leaving Midi at midnight

Erol leaving Midi at midnight

Dawn.  Leggy, somewhere roundabout Mt Tacul

One to go.  Erol on Mt Maudit summit.  Mont Blanc behind.

Made it.  After 3 years of trying Erol finally stands on Mont Blanc

Erol, Mont Blanc summit, looking down Gouter ridge

The Reading Mountaineering Club 2002 meets list.  And what do we think of it...

Leggy's

Simon's

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