Day 3 Rock Climbing

Phillipe our guide knew how disappointed we were this morning and he was as frustrated as we were with the extremely slow pace earlier, so he agreed to take us climbing on the rock face behind. Its only another 100m higher than the hut but more challenging than the router ridge in the push for the summit of mont blanc. Samara won't be joining us she is resting. The climb is just what we needed, challenging and fun. We reach the summit in about 20 minutes unfortunately the pictures are on the video cam as weather was to bad to take the phone out. On the way down we were allowed to taboggan on our backsides down a snowslope we covered 50 metres in about 5 seconds. What an adrenalin rush that was! Again, unfortunately, the bloody video did not work as I was flying down the slope! Absolutely Amazing afternoon!!! Simon and I are really getting on well with young Phillipe who has a headache and another nose bleed, we reached 3300m today the summit is 4800 Phillipe is starting to question his ability to get there. He needs a good day tomorrow it should be ok as we are going back down. Simon and I feel strong, our guide Phillipe has just said to me and Simon that we're ready and have all the skills and strength we need to summit, he said its all down to mother nature now! Our summit attempt is 1500m ascent on friday due to logistics an extra 500m than planned but Phillipe said no problem in the way only a frenchman can say. The bad news is for Samara, she has been told she doesnt have the fitness to attempt the summit.

The summit we did today was 3269 Pointe d'orny.

I am now waiting for the hailstorm to pass so I can call Rachel and the boys, but it looks set in.

It looks and smells like chicken again tonight. The facilities here are so much better than the Albert Hut.