Topo couloir whymper

Be carefull when you pass bellow the Cordier Couloir, It use to happen avalanches. Route Description Awesome route, put up in by the great A. Charlet with J. Cross the rimaye, sometimes very wide, sometimes easy to cross. Climb the slope directly to the ridge. Once on the ridge, you are very close to the top. Toggle navigation. Carree, Aig. Gatta In winter the approach with skis is quick, around 30 minutes from the Grands Montets : ski down around m on Rognon Glacier and traverse below the Petite Verte and Cordier Couloir , paying attention to the big seracs above.

Photos whymper-couloir, Aiguille Verte. Ski Grade 5. Disclaimer Climbing and Skiing are dangerous activities that you partake in at your own risk. Chamonix Topo accepts no responsibility for loss, damage, injury or death. If there is any doubt, I'd suggest looking for a descent of similar technical difficulties but without the dangers. I'm sure your local guide would be able to make plenty of suggestions. In reply to HarryB: I have been up and down it as a summer alpine route. An unroped fall could have been serious.

If you have not done any real alipnism I wuold have thought that the exposure up there at the top will make you freeze even if you have the technical ability to ski down it.

Rubbishy 22 Mar I would seriously listen to what Chopin is saying. Aside fromt he steepness it is one to be off well before late morning. So it will be an early start and sustained effort to get up and down before the route warms up. In reply to HarryB: I've been watching this thread for the last couple of days finally feel i just have to say something. In saying that i do believe it may be some kind of elaborate troll but on the off chance it isn't i'll say what i have to say just in case.

The Whymper couloir is 50 degrees for prolonged periods and in certain years, and for that read this one as there hasn't been much snow, may get as steep as 55 degrees in places. To put some context on the above numbers you will not find a single groomed piste in Europe that goes above 40 degrees. By any serious clasification toponeige 5. The simple fact of the matter is no matter how technically competent you may think you are without previous experience on similar less difficult routes you are not ready or good enough to do this.

The possible exception to this may be the Aiguille du Midi but this clearly doesn't count as the OP has only skied the tourist route on the Vallee Blanche. I dunno it's like someone saying i can climb F7a at the climbing wall, but i've no alpine or multipitch experience, i plan on doing the Walker Spur, What do you think? Next point is a lot of guides will not have the skiing ability to ski a line like this it is well beyond the skiing ability levels for any UIAGM afilitiated guides programme.

Which means being realistic about you're down to probably less than a dozen guides in Europe who would take a punter down this. In fact i'd be surprised if it was more than a handful.