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Arête Cosmiques - Aiguille du Midi, Grand Gendarme Arête des Cosmiques
8a
Compared to the world famous Digital Crack, Arête Cosmiques offers a completely different style of climbing and was established in 2013 by Nicolas Portard and Victor Estrangin. As the name suggests, this climbing the righthand arête past some interesting and...
C'era una volta il West - Rognon Vaudano
7a+
A beautiful route with amazing crack climbing and plenty of hand jams and laybacks on Rognon Vaudano, below Dent du Géant. The second-to-last, but especially the last pitch are really quite incredible.
Digital Crack - Aiguille du Midi, Grand Gendarme Arête des Cosmiques
8a
Digital Crack is a unique climb in a unique setting, located on the huge granite gendarme above the famous Arête des Cosmiques. The monolith, with its typical Mont Blanc orange granite, currently hosts two bolted alpine sport climbs. The first...
Electric Avenue - Aiguille du Midi, Grand Gendarme Arête des Cosmiques
7b
Electric Avenue is an interesting addition to the Gendarme des Cosmiques, only the third route on the granite monolith after Digital Crack (1990) and Arête Cosmiques (2013) and at 7b the easiest way to the summit. Note that if you climb...
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