Alpine Adventures

Chamonix is a small town nestled deep in the alps and is the birth place of some of the worlds most legendary climbing. Obvisously this was too much for us to pass up.

We stayed with some incredible locals. Our friend we stayed with, Dennis, holds world records for skiiing, and every year, someone he knows dies in the mountains. This is a town of true adventurers.

Talking with some of the girls we stayed with, they warned us it was too dangerous to go up without a guide. Once we found out guides were too expensive, the girls begged us not to go up alone. The next morning we went up alone.
Sometimes it was scary, but always it was dangerous.

The first day we almost didnt make it off the mountain.

The next day when we went up, Eric fell, caught himself with one arm, narrowly escaping the depths of a cravasse.

This night we stayed out in the wild and pitched our tent on a glacier. The storming weather made us set up tent earlier than we had planned, and that night the fierce winds kept us up a lot of the night, re-staking our tent and trying to keep it from being blown apart.
We can try, but it is almost a futile attempt to explain how much we loved climbing the ice and being on top of snowy peaks.
Jonathan