Mont Blanc 2015

Hello! This is Alexander Abramov  already from Moscow. As you know, we visited  Matterhorn, but we have not climbed it. Two of the guys who came before us in the Matterhorn - and we do not see them. We hope that they all right. Morning, I saw a helicopter flying around the Matterhorn. We hope that they are OK...
I and Luda, we went down to Zermatt, then we climbed Riffelhorn, then we went down to Chamonix ... Well, basically, what the reason: there is no people, no trails, rocks in the snow, all the ropes in the ice. The main conclusion is that we must climb in the Alps, yes, actually in all the mountains, right in the season.

Lyudmila Korobeshko: We passed climbing up a few hours on the slopes of the mountains of the Gran Paradiso, sinking almost to the waist in the snow. We realized that we did not get to the top to 12 a.m. at such snow and pace. Tired but hungry, we went back to the flooded showers Chamonix.

Guides: Alex Abramov, Valery Babanov and Lyudmila Korobeshko.

Alex Abramov from Chamonix:

Today (5th of October) our team had been training on the glacier Mer de Glace on the slopes of Mont Blanc, near the station Helbronner at 3500m. At first, not all members had enough oxygen. Plus, it seems, before us, very few people went there. Therefore, we trample the snow above the knee. Some of us even fell, and as a result actually fall into a crack. It starts a pulling-out or self-rescue.

The result of today: a conclusion that it is better never to fall into a crevasse! It is not the fact that your partner have the strength and ability to get you out into the daylight.

In the evening, it was a small party of songs with guitar and by the fire!

Everybody is happy. Now we go on a training climb on one of the most famous peaks - Grand Paradiso (4061m) in Italy.

Alexander Abramov: Hello! Today - the first day. Our team arrived in Chamonix for Mountain School training. According to the plan, we will hold classes on the movement of glaciers in ropes, pulling  victims out of cracks,  belay and self-belay  on ice and snow.

This event is a continuation of the Mountain School, which was 2 weeks ago in Crimea

 Our team consists of 5 students and 3 mountain guide - Alexander Abramov,  Lyudmila Korobeshko, Valery Babanov. Today we bought the necessary equipment, looked Valery Rozov and Andrey Volkov jumping off cliffs, first time visited a glacier...

Alex Abramov from Chamonix: Yesterday our team "survival school” in Chamonix moved to Italian side and rose to Helbronner station, 3350m altitude. There we were met by a snowstorm. That is to say, from summer to winter.

By lunchtime, the weather became better and we were able to hold classes on climb-up - traverse- descent on fixed ropes. Also as self-arrest and belay on the snow.

Then put up a tent, we have worked at overnight in tents in the snow.
In the morning the weather has finally deteriorated, however, our team still managed to climb the nearest “unnamed” peak.

We gave it a new name - La Pipka.

All members of the group agreed that, classes were great, it was very interesting and useful.

In the evening I moved to Valery Rozov, Andrei Volkov and Sasha Ruchkin. They warmed and lured me to go with them to one of the peaks south of Chamonix.

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