Everything was going as planned. We did the 3Am rappel, climbed to the col, down climbed into “no mans land,” crossed under multiple seracs, climbed over half a dozen bergschrundsand and just as we made it over our last barrier and were getting ready to hammer down to the peak we realized it was not [...]
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The Alps. Going for Gold, Round Two
The Alps. Going for Gold
The hike to our bivouac was suppose to take 2 to 3 hours. An exposed knife edge ridge turned it into 6. I thought for sure we were lost only to find the bivouac, a glorified portaledge, bolted to the side of the cliff. I guess this is their way of crowd control over here. [...]