Petit Mont Blanc - Bonatti couloir

Guy, Oli and I have talked about this line a few times in past springs but never quite had the conditions or free time at the right time to get in here. On Sunday, along with Jon & Rhiannon we hit the jackpot with great conditions - 1000m of good cold snow with a stunning back drop!

Guy on the first abseil in - 15m gets you to a second anchor, from where 20m was enough to hit skiable snow:

Rhi at the bottom of the second ab:

Trusty steads for the day - my Whitedot Skis Ranger Carbonlites even took their own 'selfie', with the West Face of Mont Blanc as backdrop (and looking very thin this year sadly...):

Yum yum:

Rhi high in the couloir:

Oli:

Guy throwing some shapes:

'The gift that keeps on giving' - from the top the glacier looks reasonably close, but the more pitches you ski, the more you realise it is still a long way down!

Jon:

And finally... 1000m of continuous steepness later:

Happy gang!

Balancing act on the moraine ridge - the start of a 12km walk out (yes my feet are still sore now...):

Thanks to Guy, Oli, Jon and Rhi for great company and to Whitedot Skis for the Ranger Carbonlites - the more time I have spent on them this winter the more impressed I have been