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Mont Blanc - Ascent
Mont Blanc, the highest mountain in France at 4808 meters ( although these days some people say its 4810m!). It's a much saught after summit.We have been sucessfully providing these courses for over 14 years and many other tour operaters have tried to emulate our itinerary and good sucess rate. Our six day itinerary consist of 4 days training and practise. The firt day includes glacier travel skills, crevasse awareness, ice axe and crampon technique and then a three day training/acclimatisation trip taking in two nights at high mountain huts and spectacular ascents of good training summits which provide excellent acclimatization and preperation for a two day ascent of Mont Blanc. Mont Blanc can be an easy mountain when the snow, and weather condirtions are superb, however please be prepared for a very long summit day, as it's a tough day by the time you get back to the valley ! This week is suitable for beginners as long as you are fit as full training in basic skills are provided however some walking/mountaineering experience is benificial and a good level of fitness is essential! Accomodation consists of 4 nights in a good quality Gite/hotel in Chamonix, with bed and breakfast. 3 nights in Mountain huts (dormatory style accom) with breakfast and dinner. A fully IFMGA/UIAGM guided service.
Itinerary:
Evening prior to Day 1. Meet in Chamonix for brief with your guide and equipment preperation.( HOTEL)( If your travel arrangments are tight, we can meet on the morning of day 1)
Day 1. Organise any equipment hire/checks and travel to a glacier for a basic crampon, and ice axe skills day, Glacier travel skills, and if we have time crevasse rescue awareness. A usefull training day on the Vallee Blanche or Mer de Galce or a similar glacier trverse.( HOTEL)
Day 2. Cable car and walk up to a Mountain Hut with some group training along the way. (Mountain Hut)
Day 3. From Mountain Hut, glacier traverse, ascend a good training peak and go to another high mountain Hut. ( Mountain Hut)
Day 4. From the Mountain Hut climb another mountain and return to Chamonix. (HOTEL)
Day 5. From Chamonix go up to a Mountain Hut to stay overnight at the Hut en route to Mont Blanc normally via Goutier (although we often guide the Trois Mont Blanc alternative route via the Cosmiques Mountain Refuge) depending on snow conditions and group wishes and guides recommendation depending on your abilities. ( Mountain Hut)
Day 6. From the Mountain Hut an early start ( 2-3.00 am) to attempt Mont Blanc and return to Chamonix. (HOTEL)
Evening de-brief and meal.(overnight HOTEL included) Service ends after breakfast.
Date:
Summer season - 2009
Dates are from mid June until mid September 2008 and we will soon be updated here on our web site.:( Please arrive in Chamonix for late Saturday afternoon/ evening and our service ends with breakfast on the following Saturday morning). Contact us direct if you wish Private guiding and your own private personalised trip.
Now at the time of writng (10 September 2008 ) all our Mont Blanc "group trips" are fuuly booked. WE ARE HOWEVER OFFERING PRIVATE GUIDING BASED ON THE SAME/SIMILAR ITINERARY. PLEASE E MAILSANDY ALLAN DIRECT FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: info@teamascent.co.uk
MBA Please quote our Trip code: MBA/ and date choice when making your reservation
Price:
PRICES FROM: with all accomodation prices wil be in the region of £1400.00 per person. If you decide to provide your own accomodation, and feding and pay for your mountain huts as you use them the price will be £ TBC
Team AScent will reserve all mountain huts.
Our Price Includes: B&B in a Chamonix Gite/Hotel and dinner, bed and breakfast in Mountain Huts. IFMGA Mountain Guide ratio 1:2 for Mont Blanc ascent and 1:4 for training/acclimatisation days.
Not Included: Your mountain uplifts ( Cable cars and rack railways,evening meals in the valley, Packed lunches, additional drinks and bottled water at mountain huts,your travel to and from Chamonix and your personal travel/rescue insurance.
Should you have your own accomodation in Chamonix please contact us for a reduced price.
We also offer this trip on a private guiding basis and can carry out any training and acclimatisation on other mountains if you wish to customise the itineary for your own specific objectives. Feel free to email us if you wish to have a private guiding service.
Documents:
Team Ascent provide a number of documents to assist you in planning your course with us:
Important: These particulars are in Acrobat pdf format. To print and view the schedule you will need " Acrobat" pdf Reader. If you are using Windows this should already be installed on your computer. If not, click this image for a simple free download:
