24th - Second day on summit trip

Today was a short day to be ready for the summit push tomorrow. The plan was a short 800 meter acclimatization walk for 4 hours, back for lunch and relaxation the rest of the day.

Diesel Hut is at 4080 meters and climbing to 4850 was hard work – but knowing that it would make the walk to the summit easier I didn’t mind at all. This also meant that we passed the summit of Mont Blanc which is at 4807 meters.

Coming back we had lunch and the afternoon was mostly spent on sleeping as much as possible. Dinner was early and soon most had gone to bed to try and get as much sleep as possible before departure.

The view from our return point.