Aiguille de Blaitière

Aiguille Blaitiere from the north. John Ruskin, 1856

View of the west wall of the Aiguille de Chamonix Blaitiere, right: Aiguille des Ciseaux and Aiguille du Fou

Traces of rockfalls from 1947 and 1952 are clearly erkennen.bdep2 as bright spots in the rock

The Aiguille de Blaitiere is a 3522 m high mountain near Chamonix in the French Mont Blanc massif.

Topography

The Aiguille de Blaitiere rises southeast of Chamonix above the glacier Glacier de Blaitiere. It is part of the rugged ridge of the Aiguilles de Chamonix, which extends here from the Aiguille du Midi in the south-west up to the Aiguille des Grands Charmoz in the Northeast. In the southeast of Glacier d' Envers de Blaitiere flows toward the Glacier du Tacul, a tributary of the Mer de Glace. To the north- east flows a striking Firnrinne, the Spencercouloir, down to the Glacier des Nantillons. Known neighboring summits are the Aiguille du Plan ( 3673 m) to the southwest and the Aiguille du Grépon ( 3482 m) in the northeast. To the south lie the Aiguille des Ciseaux ( 3479 m) and the Aiguille du Fou ( 3501 m).

The Aiguille de Blaitiere itself has three peaks, the highest of the 3522 m high central peak is. The north peak, even Pte. de Chamonix, has a height of 3507 m, the south summit is about 3521 m high.

Alpinism

The Aiguille de Blaitiere was on August 6, 1874 by ER Whitwell, and C. and J. Lauener first ascents, in 1873 had TS Kennedy, J.A.G. Marshall, J. Fisher and U. Almer reached the North Summit. The increases that were selected in the 19th century, led over the rocks of the main ridge and on the edge of Spencercouloirs along. Today, they are hardly significant. As today is considered the normal route 1898 erstbegangene route over the Spencercouloir that. Carried about 51 ° steep ice and rock climbing in the III Difficulty ( UIAA ) leads from the northeast to the summit.

Also popular are the routes through the steep western wall, most of which are in the nature of sport climbing routes. These routes are partially rockfall risk. Just 20 days after the first ascent of the West Face by P. Allain and A. Fix on September 10, 1947 put a huge rock fall completely out of the new route. Also in 1952, a newly developed route was only a year later completely destroyed by a rock slide. The traces of these events are still visible and the affected parts of the wall no longer durchkletterbar. The now well-known rise through the west wall is the undeveloped 1954 by Joe Brown and Don Whillans Englishman Lead (VII). Also, the west wall upstream Pilier rouge de Blaitiere offers several difficult climbing routes.

Another popular way is to exceed the three Blaitiere summit, the Aiguille des Ciseaux and the Aiguille du Fou (V).

Starting point for the ascent of the middle station of the Aiguille du Midi cable car ( Plan de l' Aiguille, 2310 m), Mont Envers or Chamonix.