A short edit from Luca from a day out on the Gabarrou route on Les Courtes.
PS – EPIC TV chose the title – not us!
Gabarrou
Tag: mikko heimonen
2013 – The Winter of All Time
Michelle Blaydon, Dents du Midi Refuge
Grands Envers
Grands Envers, Jim Lee and Roger Knox
Requin
Michelle Blaydon, Brevent
Full Moon on Aiguille du Plan
Davide de Masi, Toula
Davide de Masi, Toula
Davide de Masi, Toula
Dave Searle, Helbronner
Dave Searle, Helbronner
Michelle Blaydon, Marbree
Luca Pandolfi, Col d’Entreves
Luca Pandolfi, Col d’Entreves
Sylvain Renaud, Couloir Cache
Roger Knox, Aiguille Rouge
Hellfire on the Para Face
Dawn from Dents du Midi refuge
Dave Searle, Doigts North Couloir
Skiers in the Vrai Vallee Blanche
Michelle Blaydon, Dent Jaune Couloir
Minna Riihimaki, Midi North Face
Bird, Midi North Face
Davide de Masi, Toula
Going solo, South Face of Courtes
Mid Season Powder Day
Chamonix from Grands Montets
Wind
Ben Briggs in Cosmiques
My tracks, Cordier-Gabarrou, Courtes
My tracks on South Face of Courtes after negotiating full depth avalanche.
Minna and Bird in the Petit Gerva
Tom Grant on the Mallory
Michelle Blaydon
Nonne Eveque Couloir
Minna Riihimaki
Cream in the VB
A moody mothership
Brett Lotz in Eugster
Tom Grant
Mikko Heimonen and Speed Rider
Bird Early on Tour Ronde North Face
Luca Pandolfi, Frendo Spur
Minna Riihimaki – Tour Ronde North Face
Mikko Heimonen on Col du Plan
Sunset from the Charpoura
Mikko Heimonen on Col du Plan
Luca Pandolfi in Cosmiques
Ben Briggs on the Frendo Spur
Max Turgeon on Les Courtes NE Spur
The Finns on Col de la Verte
Bird on the Frendo
Getting close on the Frendo Spur
Bird Early, Frendo Spur
Bird Early, Frendo Spur
Minna Riihimaki, Frendo Spur
The Frendo Spur
The crew after the Frendo
Frendo Fail
We went up to ski the Frendo and take photos but the overnight rain level had risen too high. Even Ben wasn’t keen for the hard snow on the lower half and the top half had only seen an angry inch.
The disappointment was soon at the back of our minds as we enjoyed some fast flowing velvet down an Envers variant reminding us that low angled can be really fun.
An unhappy Mikko
Luca and Niki looking sad. 
There will be no Frendo spine action today. 
Ben cruising on the velvet.
Attempt on the Gabarrou Les Courtes
Mikko, Tom and Ben chilling in the sun.
Mikko.
Luca arriving at the hanging glacier.
I’m not going well today and about to ski down. The guys blast on and ski from the summit.
Luca coming up. 
I get great snow on the way down before it got hot. About 2 turns in a section 100 m wide ripped above the serac. Would have made a good photo from below.
Tournier Spur entry to Col du Plan
I promised myself I was going to chill out and get ready to go to the mountains the next day. When I woke up there was a little FOMO going on after the storms of the last 2 days and 15 minutes later I was down at the Midi promising myself I would only go to take photos. But on the ride up it was clearly the Midi May day with snow plastered everywhere and I joined Luca Pandolfi and Mikko Heimonen for a run.
I don’t think anyone had been over the Tournier Spur this year and it had been looking icy until recently so I was pretty nervous hearing the ice under the guy’s boards and had to use axes to get down a 5 m section. A couple more storms and it will be awesome. Apart from this small section we found great snow top to bottom.
Ross Hewitt Guiding 
