Cybercasts

Hello, this is Jonathon Spitzer with the Mont Blanc trip #3, the Schrund Munchers. It’s currently about 2:15 here in France, and I’m very happy to announce that we got to, had a safe climb to the summit.

We were on the summit at around just before 8 this morning. Joe Greenberg, and Wayne, Todd, Graham, and Robert were all able to climb, so we got five climbers to the top. Unfortunately Mark ended up catching the flu, and is flying home. Guy has a pre-existing foot injury and choose not to climb. And Jeff unfortunately tweaked his knee, but hopefully those three will come back. But everybody else had a really great climb, definitely unique experience here on the Mont Blanc.

We’re safe back now at the Tete Rousse Hut and tomorrow we’ll be descending back to Chamonix. Thanks for following our cybercast, and I’ll try to post some pictures in the next day or two.

Bye!

Bonjour!

Today, Aug 16th we arrived back in Chamonix this afternoon. We woke up this morning over at the Trient Hut (Switzerland) to some adverse weather. Our attempt at Aig Du Tour did not happen because of poor weather. Instead we traversed back to Le Tour and made our way back to Chamonix. Currently all the clouds have blown away and the weather is sunny and clear.

Tomorrow we are going to start to make our ascent on Mont Blanc. We will ascend up to the Tete Rousse Hut and the following day (Saturday) make an attempt on Mont Blanc.

Everybody is doing very well and really enjoying the great climbing life we have here in the Alps!

Hello, this is Jonathon Spitzer, from Chamonix, France. Yesterday we left the Albert Premiere Hut, traversed up the La Tour Glacier, climbed Petite Forche, and then rappelled down into Switzerland, over nice bergschrund. We’ve now got our team name, the Schrund Munchers, so that’ll be our team name from now on.

Then we spent the night last night at the Trient Hut, which is like a beautiful, tucked in hut in Switzerland, right above the glacier. We all had Rösti, traditional food in the hut. Then this morning we woke up to unfortunately some adverse weather conditions, heavy rain. We weren’t able to climb Aiguille du Tour, but we’re back over at the Albert Premiere Hut and we’re going to start making our way back down to Chamonix.

Everybody’s doing really well, just hoping the weather works out for the next couple days. And yeah, that’s about it. Oh, I’ll try to post some pictures tonight or tomorrow morning on the cybercast. So thanks for following you guys and we’ll be in touch. Bye!

Hello, this is Jonathon Spitzer from Chamonix, France.

Today we hiked up to the Albert Premier Hut here, about 2800 meters above La Tour and did some skills on the glacier this afternoon. Tomorrow we’re going to hike up on the glacier, do some glacier travel skills, climb a couple small peaks over 3500 meters and then traverse down to the Trient glacier over to Switzerland. And we plan on spending tomorrow night at the Trient Hut in lovely Switzerland (at around 3100 meters).

Everybody’s doing well. We got a really strong group of seven Americans and one Scottish man, who’s got a thick accent, he’s doing great. And yeah, we got an awesome team here. Weather’s been great and hopefully with this weather, the beautiful sunny skies will hold over the weekend.

Thanks for following our cybercast and I’ll try and call you guys again tomorrow. Bye!

Bonjour from Chamonix, France!

Tonight is the first night of our third Mont Blanc trip of the season. We will be having a climber dinner in-town. Tomorrow morning we will do a gear check, followed by picking up any last minute items before heading into the field.

The forecast is looking sunny and hot for the next 3 days. We are going up to the Le Tour area for some skills and acclimating.

We will post some more cybercasts over the next couple days!

Merci,
Jonathon