Tuesday, 16 June 2015

16th – Rest day

Gil and Jon were taken out on a walk today while Alex and I had a rest day. We have been given tickets so we can travel free with all public transportation in the Chamonix Valley while we’re here so we took the train into Chamonix to have a walk around. The ride there was nothing short of beautiful. When walking I realized that my calves were totally shot but otherwise I felt fine.

The weather was quite cloudy but we luckily didn’t get any rain. Due to the clouds we gave up on going up to Aiguille du Midi so after lunch we had a bit of trotting around before returning to Argentiere. The moment we stepped out of the train it started pouring down and coming back to the chalet we found the two others had also just returned. They had had a great walk above the clouds mostly, but it had been hard on the calves and spent a lot of the time on narrow ledges.

We watched the GoPro recording from the summit yesterday; the footage was great, beautiful views – but those ledges and steep slopes…

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