Grandes Jorasses, Colton Macintyre

This was a great trip. Turn up in Chamonix, meet up with Houseman and jump on the Jorasses the next day. The weather was perfect, quite mild and conditions fantastic though some ice on the upper mixed pitches would have been nice. Being unacclimatised and arriving from sea level, we bivied at the base and then again on the summit.

Houseman at the lower gully
Houseman coming up the lower gully
Houseman on 2nd Icefield
Houseman on the Crux
Nearing the Walker
The upper mixed pitches
Andy Houseman
Sundown on the Midi
Me on the summit, photo Andy Houseman