BLAST FROM THE PAST ... midi-plan traverse

I copied this photo from Rebuffat's Between Heaven and Earth. On my first climbing trip to the Alps, in the mid-1970s, I picked up a great partner in Chamonix. Richard Wilmot was a South African who I climbed the North Face of the Chardonnet, Cosmique Arête, Midi-Plan Traverse, and the Sentinelle Rouge with. (Later that year we climbed in Yosemite Valley for two months.)