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Mont Blanc de Cheilon (3870m / 12690ft), as we saw it
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| Looking back to the Cabane des Dix hut (barely visible on
a sunny snow hill to the right -- 2928m / 9600ft) see close-up of hut |
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Eight skiers climb the mountain. The route goes up
to the big icefall, then around it to the right, then cuts back left
above it, and continues up and left to the skier's summit. |
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| Looking inside the icefall. (click on it to see it larger) |
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Skiers approach the summit, with the
mountains of Italy behind. |
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| Prominent on the east horizon are the Dent Blanche and the Matterhorn. The broad snow summit before them in between is the Pigne d'Arolla (3796m / 12450ft). |
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After we ski back down, then climb over the Pas des Chevres pass, we ski all the way down to the village of Arolla -- and find this view of Mont Collon (3637m / 11930ft), towering over the groomed cross-country ski tracks and the lower Arolla Glacier. |
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