A day in Argentiere basin

Went for a little adventure and the last for this year with skier and photographer Miku Merikanto.

West face Mont Blanc.

The west face of Mont Blanc has been something i wanted to ski seens i was first time up on Mont blanc and skied the North face back in 2013. Ross Hewitt and Guilhem had good information about this face and said it could be in good conditions. Me and Mikko was interested to ski it to so we decided to ski it together.

Skinning up mont blanc du tacul we started 07.00 from cosmiqhut.

On mont maudit we climbed the three months route.

On the summit. We started ski 13.00

On the top with Petit mont blanc in the background.

Ross Hewitt skiing to the start of the face.

On the way back to courmayeur

Waiting for lift back to Chamonix. Thanks to  Jim that pick us up.

Hiddencouloir new variation of jagercouloir

I skied Valle Blanche to have a look at the Big Gervasutti on Mont Blanc du Tacul. When i was standing there this couloir lookers right of Jager looked so white. I told Mikko Heimonen about it and we decide to give it a try.

There are so peaceful to climb in the morning light.

Jesper leading the climbing over the ridge to Hiddencouloir.

Jesper on the bootpack.

Steepest line i have skied. It was so steep that my buckle on my skiboots went up when i turned. It was like falling down when  you turn. Mikko make it looks so easy like always. It was really hot this day when we skied down we was attacked by several rockfall.

Jesper on the ridge in the middle of Hiddencouloir.

Mikko skiing the ridge. It was steep and delicate.

On the rappel back to jagercouloir.

In the jager couloir.

The Italian Steepmaster and snowboarder Davide Capozzi saw us from Col du diable and took this picture.

The line steep and technical.