After one year rather poor in climbing or any other mountain activity, we decide to descend to Courmayeur for spend a week in small families.
I could on that occasion, and between walking familliales, InterCall two pretty small races.
Dent du Géant is the archetype of my preference.
When you look at it, is not she elegant? Does he not come the desire to climb? To go up there, just there to look up what you can not find the bottom? This is called "The Road to Hell" 
It is 7:15 ET premeière the bucket Entrèves leads us to radically Helbronner, one treats us climb the 2,000 m which we separates.
The few that we have welcomed fog dissipated, leaving the faint morning light play with needles.
main approach over the giant glacier we climb a small corridor cluttered with unstable blocks to reach the "dining room"
Breathtaking view of the dining room, it is 9.30. Quietly, we let the sun heat this cold world made of granite and ice.
Viewed perfectible (sur-expo. ... it's a oneway unit) of the Aiguille du Plan
The Lord of the unusual places: Mont Blanc Cursed with and Tacul
Olivier, my guide prepares the departure of "serious matters". The ascent is equipped with fixed ropes, fortunately, I was leading did not wide on the first length. It is certainly harder shown on the topo, without fixed ropes I would give more in the V IV.
The Road to Hell
ropes fixed slabs Burgener, encumbered by the roped party of the refuge. Olivier puts the turbo. He climbs along fixed ropes, the rope stretches when I am. We double and two rope tangled in their rope maneuvers.
Self-portrait in the pavement, my face a statue by the cold. A chill wind raging here, I dare not leave my gloves for fear of having a nail (that's bad anyway)
At the end of the slabs, after a surge of magical fantasy and a rock layers.
slabs are strung behind the other, a bit loaded.
In the passage between the two peaks of Dent. Point Sella (4009 m) behind Oliver.
A nice view of the edges of Rochefort.
My guide, Olivier behind the Virgin Summit struck by lightning. 
the same place, in front of the edges of Rochefort. The summit is it that a portion of the climb? Les Grandes Jorasses are they ultimately the goal that we set during an ascent of the Dent du Geant? In other-words, is it vain to scale the heights, what are we looking for? Or that we looking for? We always want to climb higher, seek commitment (relative), what is our real motivation? I can not say, but the question worth asking.
The descent, we see the passage to the tip Sella (4013m, culmination) of III
edges of Rochefort, not covered this time, but I felt like it would be down by early afternoon to go hiking with my family, otherwise we was in the time it was perhaps noon.
Val d'Aosta, my favorite land, land of cloudless sunshine, la vita e bella. Even the mountains are sunny here. A land like no other.
The Trident Tacul
She is beautiful, this dog arrogant. It elegant is the top of its 4013 m. Today we will do less climbing up. 
The Trident as we can see during the approach 
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