Up at 6:00 for and early breakfast and getting kit ready. Started touring at 7:00, we finished around 15:30. A very challenging day. We skied to the bottom of Col du Chardonnet and then started skinning up. 4 hours later we hit the top. Dave had a little deroute, missing a kick turn and slipping about 50m down the hill. We were all worried for a few minutes as he had the kitty money. After clearing the top of Chardonnet we absailed down the other side. A great experience, however got interesting when we found the rope was a little short and we needed to ice axe down to the bottom. We then started skinning again to go over Fenetre du Saleina and onto the Trient glacier. From here we skinned up to meet Rick who had finally arrived from China, via Dubai and a few other places. He had arrived that morning, showered, met a guide and started skinning up to met us. A fantastic effort. we then all skied down to Trient hut. Just to finish the day we had a 30 mins skin up to the hut.
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