Monday, September 7, 2015

Tour Ronde ... Geology happens

This massive rockfall adjacent to the normal route must have been pretty cool to watch from the lifts. After climbing Tower Ridge in Scotland, Jon Waterman and I climbed the north face route of Tour Ronde in the winter of 1978. I lead most of the pitches as he broke both an ice tool and his crampons. We bivied in the lifts and had a few -30 degree nights.

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