My Photos http://web.mac.com/denevans/Denis_Evans_.Mac_Hiking_Pages/glacier_de_tre_la_tete.html Three great days on the Mont Blanc Massif, France. Henk van Beijeren and I had a fantastic and exhausting time. The standard route to Refuge Conscrits is not available in summer anymore. Global warming has made the route impossible - the glacier below Coscrits is a crevas and serac field. So, its ladders instead. Early October 2007. (Canon 40D and 17-85mm 1:4 - 5.6 Canon lens) Tre la Tete refuge http://web.mac.com/denevans/Denis_Evans_.Mac_Hiking_Pages/glacier_de_tre_la_tete.html#0 97c853cd-bb9c-4ae4-bf84-8e2f19fc50fb http://web.mac.com/denevans/Denis_Evans_.Mac_Hiking_Pages/glacier_de_tre_la_tete_files/Media/_MG_0977.jpg?derivative=thumb http://web.mac.com/denevans/Denis_Evans_.Mac_Hiking_Pages/glacier_de_tre_la_tete_files/Media/_MG_0977.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_196_48"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Tre la Tete refuge</p></div></div> _MG_0980 http://web.mac.com/denevans/Denis_Evans_.Mac_Hiking_Pages/glacier_de_tre_la_tete.html#1 b8ce49ae-e47e-4202-ac0c-78e276c4a5e6 http://web.mac.com/denevans/Denis_Evans_.Mac_Hiking_Pages/glacier_de_tre_la_tete_files/Media/_MG_0980.jpg?derivative=thumb http://web.mac.com/denevans/Denis_Evans_.Mac_Hiking_Pages/glacier_de_tre_la_tete_files/Media/_MG_0980.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_196_48"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">_MG_0980</p></div></div> Tre la Tete glacier - stony near the terminus http://web.mac.com/denevans/Denis_Evans_.Mac_Hiking_Pages/glacier_de_tre_la_tete.html#2 739e9768-2bf6-4997-a6b4-2d35c88cc85c http://web.mac.com/denevans/Denis_Evans_.Mac_Hiking_Pages/glacier_de_tre_la_tete_files/Media/_MG_0988.jpg?derivative=thumb http://web.mac.com/denevans/Denis_Evans_.Mac_Hiking_Pages/glacier_de_tre_la_tete_files/Media/_MG_0988.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_196_48"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Tre la Tete glacier - stony near the terminus</p></div></div> The ice bridge to get onto the galcier. People are like ants. http://web.mac.com/denevans/Denis_Evans_.Mac_Hiking_Pages/glacier_de_tre_la_tete.html#3 724dd54c-d994-4340-adb5-b507ef818a37 http://web.mac.com/denevans/Denis_Evans_.Mac_Hiking_Pages/glacier_de_tre_la_tete_files/Media/_MG_0989.jpg?derivative=thumb http://web.mac.com/denevans/Denis_Evans_.Mac_Hiking_Pages/glacier_de_tre_la_tete_files/Media/_MG_0989.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_196_48"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">The ice bridge to get onto the galcier. People are like ants.</p></div></div> Many glaciers are filling up with stone http://web.mac.com/denevans/Denis_Evans_.Mac_Hiking_Pages/glacier_de_tre_la_tete.html#4 1470105a-f412-4b88-a4d2-0628e2a93579 http://web.mac.com/denevans/Denis_Evans_.Mac_Hiking_Pages/glacier_de_tre_la_tete_files/Media/_MG_0992%20copy.jpg?derivative=thumb http://web.mac.com/denevans/Denis_Evans_.Mac_Hiking_Pages/glacier_de_tre_la_tete_files/Media/_MG_0992%20copy.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_196_48"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Many glaciers are filling up with stone</p></div></div> This stoney glacier is vast. That’s Henk! http://web.mac.com/denevans/Denis_Evans_.Mac_Hiking_Pages/glacier_de_tre_la_tete.html#5 825eb4a9-8a17-49e9-b351-6785eea1ff57 http://web.mac.com/denevans/Denis_Evans_.Mac_Hiking_Pages/glacier_de_tre_la_tete_files/Media/_MG_0996.jpg?derivative=thumb http://web.mac.com/denevans/Denis_Evans_.Mac_Hiking_Pages/glacier_de_tre_la_tete_files/Media/_MG_0996.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_196_48"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">This stoney glacier is vast. That&#x2019;s Henk!</p></div></div> _MG_1000 http://web.mac.com/denevans/Denis_Evans_.Mac_Hiking_Pages/glacier_de_tre_la_tete.html#6 bbe3878f-7d7e-4ff6-8084-f54f56388b40 http://web.mac.com/denevans/Denis_Evans_.Mac_Hiking_Pages/glacier_de_tre_la_tete_files/Media/_MG_1000.jpg?derivative=thumb http://web.mac.com/denevans/Denis_Evans_.Mac_Hiking_Pages/glacier_de_tre_la_tete_files/Media/_MG_1000.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_196_48"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">_MG_1000</p></div></div> Headwall before the seracs and crevace field http://web.mac.com/denevans/Denis_Evans_.Mac_Hiking_Pages/glacier_de_tre_la_tete.html#7 8b73f71e-b7fe-40af-85a2-6a1d03d6bc2e http://web.mac.com/denevans/Denis_Evans_.Mac_Hiking_Pages/glacier_de_tre_la_tete_files/Media/_MG_1001.jpg?derivative=thumb http://web.mac.com/denevans/Denis_Evans_.Mac_Hiking_Pages/glacier_de_tre_la_tete_files/Media/_MG_1001.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_196_48"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Headwall before the seracs and crevace field</p></div></div> We left the galcier here http://web.mac.com/denevans/Denis_Evans_.Mac_Hiking_Pages/glacier_de_tre_la_tete.html#8 a302aa54-626f-47f6-8c4d-c77f3505855a http://web.mac.com/denevans/Denis_Evans_.Mac_Hiking_Pages/glacier_de_tre_la_tete_files/Media/_MG_1005.jpg?derivative=thumb http://web.mac.com/denevans/Denis_Evans_.Mac_Hiking_Pages/glacier_de_tre_la_tete_files/Media/_MG_1005.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_196_48"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">We left the galcier here</p></div></div> and headed for the ladders. http://web.mac.com/denevans/Denis_Evans_.Mac_Hiking_Pages/glacier_de_tre_la_tete.html#9 8921f2dc-4bf2-4317-96d4-09475d9b17e4 http://web.mac.com/denevans/Denis_Evans_.Mac_Hiking_Pages/glacier_de_tre_la_tete_files/Media/_MG_1008.jpg?derivative=thumb http://web.mac.com/denevans/Denis_Evans_.Mac_Hiking_Pages/glacier_de_tre_la_tete_files/Media/_MG_1008.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_196_48"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">and headed for the ladders.</p></div></div> Above the ladders theres a person down there http://web.mac.com/denevans/Denis_Evans_.Mac_Hiking_Pages/glacier_de_tre_la_tete.html#10 39ec0a33-bd03-4591-90ba-d1d81e1c1719 http://web.mac.com/denevans/Denis_Evans_.Mac_Hiking_Pages/glacier_de_tre_la_tete_files/Media/_MG_1012.jpg?derivative=thumb http://web.mac.com/denevans/Denis_Evans_.Mac_Hiking_Pages/glacier_de_tre_la_tete_files/Media/_MG_1012.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_196_48"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Above the ladders theres a person down there</p></div></div> See him now? And look into the cravases from above! http://web.mac.com/denevans/Denis_Evans_.Mac_Hiking_Pages/glacier_de_tre_la_tete.html#11 6e2bf992-d783-458c-9db9-3bec8bd36e8b http://web.mac.com/denevans/Denis_Evans_.Mac_Hiking_Pages/glacier_de_tre_la_tete_files/Media/_MG_1013.jpg?derivative=thumb http://web.mac.com/denevans/Denis_Evans_.Mac_Hiking_Pages/glacier_de_tre_la_tete_files/Media/_MG_1013.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_196_48"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">See him now? And look into the cravases from above!</p></div></div> First view of Refuge des Conscrits http://web.mac.com/denevans/Denis_Evans_.Mac_Hiking_Pages/glacier_de_tre_la_tete.html#12 658f7268-3e92-4d7d-bd53-9bbffd36cb28 http://web.mac.com/denevans/Denis_Evans_.Mac_Hiking_Pages/glacier_de_tre_la_tete_files/Media/_MG_1015.jpg?derivative=thumb http://web.mac.com/denevans/Denis_Evans_.Mac_Hiking_Pages/glacier_de_tre_la_tete_files/Media/_MG_1015.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_196_48"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">First view of Refuge des Conscrits</p></div></div> _MG_1020 http://web.mac.com/denevans/Denis_Evans_.Mac_Hiking_Pages/glacier_de_tre_la_tete.html#13 0dabba41-6a55-42b2-a485-2577fdf21945 http://web.mac.com/denevans/Denis_Evans_.Mac_Hiking_Pages/glacier_de_tre_la_tete_files/Media/_MG_1020.jpg?derivative=thumb http://web.mac.com/denevans/Denis_Evans_.Mac_Hiking_Pages/glacier_de_tre_la_tete_files/Media/_MG_1020.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_196_48"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">_MG_1020</p></div></div> _MG_1025 http://web.mac.com/denevans/Denis_Evans_.Mac_Hiking_Pages/glacier_de_tre_la_tete.html#14 10a6ae07-ff6c-4165-b79d-27d390d4f400 http://web.mac.com/denevans/Denis_Evans_.Mac_Hiking_Pages/glacier_de_tre_la_tete_files/Media/_MG_1025.jpg?derivative=thumb http://web.mac.com/denevans/Denis_Evans_.Mac_Hiking_Pages/glacier_de_tre_la_tete_files/Media/_MG_1025.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_196_48"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">_MG_1025</p></div></div> why we had to leave the glacier http://web.mac.com/denevans/Denis_Evans_.Mac_Hiking_Pages/glacier_de_tre_la_tete.html#15 34e51d72-3449-40d9-9af8-a6898e34ef84 http://web.mac.com/denevans/Denis_Evans_.Mac_Hiking_Pages/glacier_de_tre_la_tete_files/Media/_MG_1027.jpg?derivative=thumb http://web.mac.com/denevans/Denis_Evans_.Mac_Hiking_Pages/glacier_de_tre_la_tete_files/Media/_MG_1027.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_196_48"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">why we had to leave the glacier</p></div></div> _MG_1033 http://web.mac.com/denevans/Denis_Evans_.Mac_Hiking_Pages/glacier_de_tre_la_tete.html#16 6d72fde7-71c4-4d74-9770-2eb8e5ce5500 http://web.mac.com/denevans/Denis_Evans_.Mac_Hiking_Pages/glacier_de_tre_la_tete_files/Media/_MG_1033.jpg?derivative=thumb http://web.mac.com/denevans/Denis_Evans_.Mac_Hiking_Pages/glacier_de_tre_la_tete_files/Media/_MG_1033.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_196_48"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">_MG_1033</p></div></div> refuge des Conscrits 2605m http://web.mac.com/denevans/Denis_Evans_.Mac_Hiking_Pages/glacier_de_tre_la_tete.html#17 6098aa73-03ff-4bc1-a056-6b42f3bdc147 http://web.mac.com/denevans/Denis_Evans_.Mac_Hiking_Pages/glacier_de_tre_la_tete_files/Media/_MG_1034.jpg?derivative=thumb http://web.mac.com/denevans/Denis_Evans_.Mac_Hiking_Pages/glacier_de_tre_la_tete_files/Media/_MG_1034.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_196_48"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">refuge des Conscrits 2605m</p></div></div> _MG_1036 http://web.mac.com/denevans/Denis_Evans_.Mac_Hiking_Pages/glacier_de_tre_la_tete.html#18 cd61a96e-a620-4ac0-85a4-8ed35e57116b http://web.mac.com/denevans/Denis_Evans_.Mac_Hiking_Pages/glacier_de_tre_la_tete_files/Media/_MG_1036.jpg?derivative=thumb http://web.mac.com/denevans/Denis_Evans_.Mac_Hiking_Pages/glacier_de_tre_la_tete_files/Media/_MG_1036.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_196_48"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">_MG_1036</p></div></div> See the huge hanging ice wall http://web.mac.com/denevans/Denis_Evans_.Mac_Hiking_Pages/glacier_de_tre_la_tete.html#19 5813177b-fc07-474a-a5f3-399f315bb535 http://web.mac.com/denevans/Denis_Evans_.Mac_Hiking_Pages/glacier_de_tre_la_tete_files/Media/_MG_1038.jpg?derivative=thumb http://web.mac.com/denevans/Denis_Evans_.Mac_Hiking_Pages/glacier_de_tre_la_tete_files/Media/_MG_1038.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_196_48"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">See the huge hanging ice wall</p></div></div> A very modern refuge - 1995 http://web.mac.com/denevans/Denis_Evans_.Mac_Hiking_Pages/glacier_de_tre_la_tete.html#20 0cfade6d-ec3e-4240-9cb2-b9a5172c7109 http://web.mac.com/denevans/Denis_Evans_.Mac_Hiking_Pages/glacier_de_tre_la_tete_files/Media/_MG_1042.jpg?derivative=thumb http://web.mac.com/denevans/Denis_Evans_.Mac_Hiking_Pages/glacier_de_tre_la_tete_files/Media/_MG_1042.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_196_48"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">A very modern refuge - 1995</p></div></div> Sunset http://web.mac.com/denevans/Denis_Evans_.Mac_Hiking_Pages/glacier_de_tre_la_tete.html#21 9f268ea9-d88c-4035-b7fb-c781bbaccf89 http://web.mac.com/denevans/Denis_Evans_.Mac_Hiking_Pages/glacier_de_tre_la_tete_files/Media/_MG_1048.jpg?derivative=thumb http://web.mac.com/denevans/Denis_Evans_.Mac_Hiking_Pages/glacier_de_tre_la_tete_files/Media/_MG_1048.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_196_48"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Sunset</p></div></div> Alpine Ibex http://web.mac.com/denevans/Denis_Evans_.Mac_Hiking_Pages/glacier_de_tre_la_tete.html#22 df5e5da5-0328-4bb9-bdc6-d20349939e08 http://web.mac.com/denevans/Denis_Evans_.Mac_Hiking_Pages/glacier_de_tre_la_tete_files/Media/_MG_1052.jpg?derivative=thumb http://web.mac.com/denevans/Denis_Evans_.Mac_Hiking_Pages/glacier_de_tre_la_tete_files/Media/_MG_1052.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_196_48"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Alpine Ibex</p></div></div> Dawn from refuge http://web.mac.com/denevans/Denis_Evans_.Mac_Hiking_Pages/glacier_de_tre_la_tete.html#23 f5aeeac0-6708-47d0-ab54-958f685c65fe http://web.mac.com/denevans/Denis_Evans_.Mac_Hiking_Pages/glacier_de_tre_la_tete_files/Media/_MG_1055.jpg?derivative=thumb http://web.mac.com/denevans/Denis_Evans_.Mac_Hiking_Pages/glacier_de_tre_la_tete_files/Media/_MG_1055.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; 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Henk van Beijeren http://web.mac.com/denevans/Denis_Evans_.Mac_Hiking_Pages/glacier_de_tre_la_tete.html#24 cbfe75d1-e184-4442-bde8-242193a77e9c http://web.mac.com/denevans/Denis_Evans_.Mac_Hiking_Pages/glacier_de_tre_la_tete_files/Media/_MG_1059.jpg?derivative=thumb http://web.mac.com/denevans/Denis_Evans_.Mac_Hiking_Pages/glacier_de_tre_la_tete_files/Media/_MG_1059.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_196_48"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">No kidding! Henk van Beijeren</p></div></div> Ladders and blue trail markers http://web.mac.com/denevans/Denis_Evans_.Mac_Hiking_Pages/glacier_de_tre_la_tete.html#25 e564967b-876d-46f2-8017-9b8d8b5cddd4 http://web.mac.com/denevans/Denis_Evans_.Mac_Hiking_Pages/glacier_de_tre_la_tete_files/Media/_MG_1060.jpg?derivative=thumb http://web.mac.com/denevans/Denis_Evans_.Mac_Hiking_Pages/glacier_de_tre_la_tete_files/Media/_MG_1060.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_196_48"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Ladders and blue trail markers</p></div></div> Closeup ladders http://web.mac.com/denevans/Denis_Evans_.Mac_Hiking_Pages/glacier_de_tre_la_tete.html#26 2d80f479-a669-4885-8b5e-58411f1d98ea http://web.mac.com/denevans/Denis_Evans_.Mac_Hiking_Pages/glacier_de_tre_la_tete_files/Media/_MG_1062.jpg?derivative=thumb http://web.mac.com/denevans/Denis_Evans_.Mac_Hiking_Pages/glacier_de_tre_la_tete_files/Media/_MG_1062.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_196_48"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Closeup ladders</p></div></div> google earth tret la tete http://web.mac.com/denevans/Denis_Evans_.Mac_Hiking_Pages/glacier_de_tre_la_tete.html#27 570de414-d4ee-401a-acbc-a261fc49b101 http://web.mac.com/denevans/Denis_Evans_.Mac_Hiking_Pages/glacier_de_tre_la_tete_files/Media/google%20earth%20tret%20la%20tete.jpg?derivative=thumb http://web.mac.com/denevans/Denis_Evans_.Mac_Hiking_Pages/glacier_de_tre_la_tete_files/Media/google%20earth%20tret%20la%20tete.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_196_48"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">google earth tret la tete</p></div></div>