"Got tight last night on absinthe and did knife tricks. Great success shooting the knife into the piano. The woodworms are so bad and eat hell out of all furniture that you can always claim the woodworms did it."
--Ernest Hemingway
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Jeroen Vels - Apr 4, 2013 5:50 am Date Climbed: Mar 29, 2013
NiceExcellent conditions on this very nice route
BigLee - Apr 6, 2012 6:06 am Date Climbed: Mar 27, 2012
Good conditionsGood conditions, although the ice was a little thin for optimal screw protection in places. Very stepped out and felt easy as a result. Also very busy. At one point there were three teams on one belay. One of which pulled there ab rope down as I started to lead off resulting in their rope ending up wrapped around my neck with rope burn.
Peter K - Apr 23, 2011 10:23 am Date Climbed: Apr 11, 2011
Route Climbed: Goulotte Gabarrou-AlbinoniGreat névé in the lower couloir - soloing this made us arrive at the beginning of the technical pitches with the first sunrays. Unfortunately it was a little to warm and rock fall became way to serious, so we decided to turn back with 3 pitches left.
Either way an awesome route - really advisable. We'll come back for this one!
Bas Visscher - Oct 13, 2008 6:48 am Date Climbed: Oct 11, 2008
Albinoni-Gabarrou CouloirGreat fun. Got the first cablecar at 8.30 from Chamonix. Approach by foot, then soloed the first snow part, then climbed the 5 remaining pitches in 1,5h. We descended along the route (pegs sometimes little difficult to find) and pushed ourselves back to the warm Midi toilettes. We arrived there at 18.15, with the last cablecar already left, but we were prepared with sleepingbags and stove!
Jurgen - Oct 13, 2008 3:54 am Date Climbed: Oct 11, 2008
Albinoni-Gabarrou CouloirClimbed the Albinoni-Gabarrou Couloir with SP member Bas Visscher. Perfect conditions in the couloir! Only the last pitch was a bit thin. Ski's are usefull for the approach! Great route!
bbirtle - Apr 9, 2006 10:22 pm Date Climbed: Jan 11, 2006
TickGood climb although very long for my out of shape body. Meant a night walk across the glaciar back to the Abri Simond hut, which was pleasant in hindsight while being nearly unbearable due to extreme exhaustion at the time.
Good fun.