Aiguille du Chardonnet

Aiguille du Chardonnet (left) and Aiguille d' Argentière, from the Aiguille des Grands Montets (west)

The Aiguille du Chardonnet is a 3824 m high mountain in the Mont Blanc massif. The summit is located in Haute -Savoie about 500 meters from the border of Switzerland and France.

Location

The Aiguille du Chardonnet is located in eastern Mont- Blanc massif about five kilometers east of Argentière. The mountain massif is circled by several glaciers: Southeast of the Glacier d' Argentière runs, north of the Glacier du Tour and east of the Glacier de Saleina. Direct south summit is the Aiguille d' Argentière neighbor, which is separated by the Col du Chardonnet ( 3323 m) from the Aiguille du Chardonnet. To the south, this chain draws on the tour to Mont Noir Dolent. North of the Aiguille du Chardonnet is the Aiguille du Tour.

The actual summit is a passage extending from east to west ridge. This ridge falls to the south from 600 to 800 meters high crisscrossed by ridges rock walls. In the north the mountain wears a steep glaciated edge which is punctuated by rocky outcrops and falls to the Glacier du Tour.

Climbing opportunities

The normal route leads over the western part of the northern flank to the west ridge, which passes through the lower summit to the main summit. Be the difficulties AD, ice to 40 °, the rock points III. The starting point is the Refuge Albert 1er ( 2706 m) or the Cabane du Trient ( 3170 m). The route was on August 1, 1879 Percy -W. Thomas with the leaders Josef Imboden and Joseph Marie Lochmatter from St. Niklaus first climbed in the Swiss canton of Valais.

As a classical combined tour is considered the Forbesgrat ( East Ridge ) with difficulties in the ice to 53 ° and rocky III, total AD.

Best-known route through the north wall is that of A. Miskovsky 1929 erstbegangene North Spur, named after the first climbers also Miskovsky - rib ( difficulty D).

Due to the complicated structure southern flank lead more demanding routes.