We woke up this morning 5 AM with fog, rain and strong wind outside the Torino Hut. So instead of climbing the Tête d’Entrèves as planned, we took the first lift down to Entrèves again and then the bus via Courmayeur to Chamonix.

Here we bought some more equipment for our Mont Blanc climb. There was not much more to do since it was raining all day (meaning lots of new snow above 4000 m). Fortunately, the weather forecast says we’ll have a window with clear sky for our summit attempt during the night from Tuesday to Wednesday. But first we have to climb the 1800 m altitude difference to the Gouter hut tomorrow and then the last 1000 meters on Wednesday to reach the top of Mont Blanc.

We also just met our second guide: Julian from Argentina. The South American dream team is complete!

I’ll post the next time Wednesday evening – hopefully with a summit picture.