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The biggest glacier in France - Mer de Glace

Day 1. We arrived in Couvercle Hut in the dark

Breakfast in Couvercle Hut

Grandes Jorasses outside

Near Couvercle Hut

Couvercle Hut is hidden under a huge boulder

Day 2. We opened the route towards Pointe Isabella

Small planes with tourists land on the glacier

Our route on Pointe Isabella

We started at 3 am

Deep snow made this ascent very tiring

Here we turned right to reach the ridge leading to the summit

The hole on the left is where I almost fell in the bergshrund hidden below

Climbing the ridge, still far from the top

Easier section. Mont Blanc on the left

The last and most difficult part below the summit

"Cumbre!!" With Douglas we communicate in Spanish

Unforgettable view from the summit

Rappelling from a fixed point

Aiguille Verte 4122 m (first from the left)

At sunset we were still far from the hut. We arrived at 21.00, after 18 hours of climbing

Next day weather was bad and we returned to Chamonix

Artificial Ice Cave in Mer de Glace

Mer de Glace flows 90m a year, so they have to dig a new cave