{"id":812,"date":"2012-08-19T19:27:12","date_gmt":"2012-08-19T16:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patagonia.fi\/blog\/?page_id=812"},"modified":"2012-08-19T19:36:07","modified_gmt":"2012-08-19T16:36:07","slug":"traverse-of-the-grandes-jorasses-august-2012","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.patagonia.fi\/blog\/pictures\/traverse-of-the-grandes-jorasses-august-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Traverse of the Grandes Jorasses – August 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

The traverse of the Grandes Jorasses is one of the bigger routes I’ve been eyeing at for a decade now. It’s number 73 in Rebuffat’s book ‘The 100 Finest Routes of the Mont Blanc\u00a0Massif’. By modern standards the climbing is not hard but it’s exposed, long and committing.<\/p>\n

“A magnificent\u00a0traverse, always at high altitude, on mixed\u00a0terrain, and taking\u00a0two days. <\/em>The\u00a0place is\u00a0isolated and you are very close to the mountain, aware of the closeness of wind and cloud, snow and rock. Perhaps too you will feel the satiscation of a true mountain venture, far from hotel-like huts, telepheriques, caravan of climbers which are sometimes all too noisy;\u00a0your isolation will lend to the air you breath and the light around you. <\/em>The route should not be attempted except in good weather. It is the most unpleasant to be caught by a storm on the crest of the\u00a0Jorasses, especially if there is lightning, or if you’re between the Pointe Marquerite and the Pointe Croz.” – Gaston Rebuffat
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