Aiguille du Midi – Frendo spur

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Frendo Spur is a climb for the modern alpinist who like the effectiveness you get with help from the Midi cable car. When conditions is right you can even do this route in one day by taking the first cabin from Chamonix in the morning. True “Chamonix style” way of doing it. Off course, you have to be really fit and prepared to do this. The rock climbing involves pitches of grade 5. Later, little bit higher up the wall, you will climb ice up to grade WI3+.The climbing on Frendo is hight quality, enjoyable and varied. A superb big route without a difficult descent which make the route less serious on the whole. You’re back easy by the cable car in the afternoon.

Program

Here’s a example of a two day program.

DAY 1

Preparing equipment and packing. Warm up day on Aiguille du Peigne. Sleeping in Refuge Plan de l’Aiguille.

DAY 2

We eat breakfast early in the morning and we begin our climb with head torches. The climb takes about 6 hours. We descent by the Aiguille du Midi Cable car back to Chamonix.