name this peak
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name this peak
Can you name this peak? And know anyone who has climbed (or better yet, traversed) it?
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Re: name this peak
Grand Jorasse and Dent du Geant?
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Re: name this peak
+1.
It's Grandes Jorasses from the slopes of Aiguille du Midi:
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SP photo:
It's Grandes Jorasses from the slopes of Aiguille du Midi:
http://www.photo-paysage.com/blog/2010/ ... -montagne/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
SP photo:
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Re: name this peak
Ueli Steck climbed the Colton-McIntyre route with an Alexis variation thrown in. 2h21mpvnisher wrote:And know anyone who has climbed it
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Re: name this peak
"Teeth of the Giant". Cool name.
"Tongue-tied and twisted, just an earthbound misfit, am I." -David Gilmour, Pink Floyd
"We knocked the bastard off." Hillary, 1953
"It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves." Hillary, 2003
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"We knocked the bastard off." Hillary, 1953
"It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves." Hillary, 2003
Couldn't we all use 50 years of humble growth?
-Steve Gladbach