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Summer 2010 > High Altitude > Mont-Blanc Course :
5 day course to climb Mont-Blanc « The 3 Mont-Blanc route »

Mont-Blanc climbing by the Traversée route : Mont-Blanc du Tacul, Mont Maudit, Mont-Blanc.

A more comfortable way to make the ascent. You will climb Mont-Blanc by the 3 Mont-Blanc route, alone with your guide.

Programme :

Day 1 :
Technical lesson on the Mer de Glace glacier about the use of crampons, walking while roped up and elementary knots. On this first day, a guide will take a maximum of 6 clients to pair off participants of similar level.


From this day, 1 guide for 1 participant.

Day 2 & Day 3 : You will test out these new skills in high altitude, hiking on a glacier, climbing a summit or a ridge ...
1 guide for 1 participant

Mont-Blanc climbing : 1 guide for 1 participant .

Day 4 : Cable-car from Chamonix to the top of Aiguille du Midi (3842 m). A short descent with crampons get us to Les Cosmiques refuge (3613 m).

Day 5 : Ascent of Mont-Blanc du Tacul (4200 m), then the shoulder of Mont-Maudit (4280 m), Brenva Pass and summit of Mont-Blanc - 6 to 8 hours.

Return route via the same way or via Goûter refuge, depending on snow and glacier conditions.

Equipement : Warm pair of pants, warm jacket preferably with a hood, polar fleece and windbreaker with a hood, quality gloves and or mits, warm socks, gaiters, backpack ( 40 liters), altitude sunglasses and goggles, water bottle, headlamp, sunscreen lotion.

Specific equipement : Quality mountaineering boots , crampons, ice axe, harness, helmet.

Summer prices 2010 : 1690 € per person.
This price includes :
The high mountain guide, the cable-car & train; picnic & lunch, accomodation at the hut (Evening meal, bed, and breakfast).
Accommodation in Chamonix is at your charge.

Possibility ti rent the technical equipment : 115 Euros for 5 days :
high mountain boots, crampons, ice axe, harness, helmet
Tarif : 120 € / person.

We ask the hereunder deposit payment at the reservation.
The remaining has to be paid 21 days before the beginning of the course.

From 06/10/2010 to 09/23/2010
Price : 1690€ per person
General conditions    /  Maison de la Montagne - 190 Place de l'Eglise - F 74400 CHAMONIX - Tel : 33 (0)4 50 53 00 88 - Fax : 33 (0)4 50 53 48 04 - info@chamonix-guides.com