rifugio

The rifugio itself was sheer luxury compared to some of the others.

Day 9 – Trient via the Fenetre d’Arpette 2009

We bought coffees and headed back out onto the terrace, sat soaking up the warmth of the rifugio wall, frequently looking across to the Grandes Jorasses across the valley and just chilled out until the sun disappeared.

Day 9 – Trient via the Fenetre d’Arpette 2009

We bought coffees and headed back out onto the terrace, sat soaking up the warmth of the rifugio wall, frequently looking across to the Grandes Jorasses across the valley and just chilled out until the sun disappeared.

Day 6 – Courmayeur to Rifugio Bonatti 2009

The rifugio itself was sheer luxury compared to some of the others.

Day 6 – Courmayeur to Rifugio Bonatti 2009

We caught up with some of the others who had left the rifugio that morning on a hill that offered an oustanding prospect onto the south face of Mont Blanc across the Val Veny.

Day 4 – Elisabetta – Courmayeur 2009

Feel free to do that as much as you want, Amanda said, because, unlike the road to La Baita, the road to the rifugio featured five-hundred-foot slanted drop-offs separated from the passenger side of the car by two yards of loose gravel.

The Italian Summer Roland Merullo 2009

Feel free to do that as much as you want, Amanda said, because, unlike the road to La Baita, the road to the rifugio featured five-hundred-foot slanted drop-offs separated from the passenger side of the car by two yards of loose gravel.

The Italian Summer Roland Merullo 2009

Feel free to do that as much as you want, Amanda said, because, unlike the road to La Baita, the road to the rifugio featured five-hundred-foot slanted drop-offs separated from the passenger side of the car by two yards of loose gravel.

The Italian Summer Roland Merullo 2009

Feel free to do that as much as you want, Amanda said, because, unlike the road to La Baita, the road to the rifugio featured five-hundred-foot slanted drop-offs separated from the passenger side of the car by two yards of loose gravel.

The Italian Summer Roland Merullo 2009

I took some photos just as the sun was hitting the glacier above the rifugio and we sauntered down the track towards the huge moraine of the glacier du Miage in the Val Veny.

Day 4 – Elisabetta – Courmayeur 2009