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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 1, 2014 - 01:15pm PT
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SteveA
Marlow is a sport climber, boulderer, dreamer and collector fascinated by the mountain and Alpine climbing, "the real thing". I have not done the Walker Spur or any other route on the mountain. I've not even seen the mountain in reality, though I will some time.
Thanks for sharing, NutAgain.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 19, 2014 - 01:28pm PT
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Grandes Jorasses Commentary - Alessandro Gogna discusses the history of climbing on the Grandes Jorasses (Mountain 26 - 1973)
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bigbird
climber
WA
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Jan 19, 2014 - 08:57pm PT
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Here is a video of the GMHM (Le Groupe Militaire de Haute Montagne) repeating the very technical route "Manitua" on the north face of the Grands Jorasses. The crux is something like A3+ pitch on blankness...
http://vimeo.com/10352087
Lots of cool stuff on that Vimeo page
http://vimeo.com/gmhm
The Cordillera Darwin Traverse video is worth a look as well....
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 21, 2014 - 02:19pm PT
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Bigbird
Great Manitua video. TFPU!
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bigbird
climber
WA
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Jan 21, 2014 - 04:17pm PT
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While looking for a video footage of Eric Escoffier "winter trilogy"... I came across an old TV documentary of Christophe Profit doing it first... Here is the footage of Profit on the Jorasses.... Beware... Turn off the sound... the dub is HORRIBLE...
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 10, 2014 - 02:15pm PT
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Grandes Jorasses, North Face, FA Colton-MacIntyre: Cold Enough For Comfort, Mountain 53, 1977
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NutAgain!
Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
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Feb 10, 2014 - 02:52pm PT
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Any folks who can help ID what we have here? It's either Chamonix valley, or maybe Martigny to Chalais/Sierre?
I think we can see a bit of Glacier des Leschaux or Glacier de Tacul in lower mid right. And I think the big gash going toward the north (in the top middle of the frame), which divides the mountains on the left side of the valley, is the road from Martigny to Lake Geneva.
I may be smoking crack, just trying to match up what I see on google satellite view with this pic. If I'm right, Grande Jorasses are either just visible on the right of this pic, or slightly out of frame.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 12, 2014 - 03:10pm PT
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NutAgain
I'm not able to say. Maybe Jaaan or Degaine can tell?
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carlos gallego
Ice climber
Spain
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Feb 12, 2014 - 04:07pm PT
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Gift to Marlow... keep dreams alive... good luck.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 12, 2014 - 04:12pm PT
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Thanks Carlos. Have you done The Walker?
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carlos gallego
Ice climber
Spain
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Feb 12, 2014 - 04:14pm PT
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Yes, Marlow... one summer of 90 or 91... magnific classic climb for a "classic climber".
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 12, 2014 - 04:24pm PT
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The Walker must be a remarkable route.
Heckmair, for one, prefered the climb of the Walker to the legendary first ascent of the Eiger North Wall.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 12, 2014 - 04:35pm PT
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Fantastic. TFPU!
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jaaan
Trad climber
Chamonix, France
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Nut again. Looks more like the Swiss Rhone Valley to me. Sion would be just left of centre. The large frozen Dix lake in the lower right part of the photo.
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Degaine
climber
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Mar 31, 2014 - 05:50am PT
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Nutagain,
As jaaan wrote, that is the Rhône River Valley in Switzerland. You can see the Dent Blanche and the Matterhorn in the right portion of the photo, just before the wing.
Here's a recent photo of the north face of the Grandes Jorasses:
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Mar 31, 2014 - 11:05am PT
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The Shroud sure looks Proud and Phat!
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 31, 2014 - 03:34pm PT
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Degaine.
Thanks for the information.
Luca Lindic and Luka Kranjnc have recently free-climbed Rolling Stones on the North face of the Grandes Jorasses (and Adam Ondra is pushing hard in Austria)
http://www.epictv.com/player/metro-player/275356
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