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Aig. Blanche de Peuterey - looking back from the summit at Point Güßfeld into the north face (one can see a party of three climbers on the lower left side)

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Diego Sahagún

Some information

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Can you say us the angle of climb? Did you need ice screws for climbing that slope? Thanks.

Posted Mar 25, 2002 12:04 pm


	Bernhard Sauer	Re: Some information
	Hasn't voted	Hi Diego, the average angle of this specific north face route we did (Chabod/Grivel) is according to the guide book a) in the first part: 50 degrees b.) in the middle section: 45 degrees and c) in the upper part: 55 degrees. We had a short overhanging and vertical part of about 30 to 45 feet high where we had to cross a big crevasse a the key section of the ice climb. If you take my picture as a reference it would lead to a wrong conclusion; it is a bit steeper than one would expect. However, we had excellent conditions and didn´t use neither ice srews nor any other belay - it was just not necessary. Regards, Bernhard
		Posted Mar 25, 2002 2:16 pm


	Bernhard Sauer	Re: Some information
	Hasn't voted	Hi Diego, the average angle of this specific north face route we did (Chabod/Grivel) is according to the guide book a) in the first part: 50 degrees b.) in the middle section: 45 degrees and c) in the upper part: 55 degrees. We had a short overhanging and vertical part of about 30 to 45 feet high where we had to cross a big crevasse at the key section of the ice climb. If you take my picture as a reference it would lead to a wrong conclusion; it is a bit steeper than one would expect. However, we had excellent conditions and didn´t use neither ice srews nor any other belay - it was just not necessary. Regards, Bernhard
		Posted Mar 25, 2002 2:18 pm