Lenny had a break from classes in Belgium, so he tracked me down in Zermatt. I was living the true Dirtbag existence, bivying on a farmers hay field high above town, while living on bread and cheese. He found me sick, and treated me to some restaurant meals, and a warm bed at a hotel. For a payback, I told him I would take him up the Matterhorn. Weather was bad, and so we moved over to Chamonix.
After a long approach and up the valley to a bivy on the glacier, I took him up Argentiere - a 4000m peak - pictured below is the view from the summit. The big snow peak behind him is Les Courtes, and the even bigger rocky peak behind that, is the Grand Jorasses. A few days later, after Lenny headed back to school, I tried - unsuccessfully -to solo the challenging Swiss route on Les Courtes.
