Pics; Top- Damo aproaching the ice fall
Bottom- Damo leading “cascade de la stassaz”
I woke up this morning feeling like I had been hit in the face with a shovel! My eye had become swollen and puffy, but despite the fact I could only really see out of one eye I was still fairly psyched to go climbing again. After a strong coffee and some food we decided to head back up to Megève but to a different area from yesterday.
We headed to Stassaz area which looked really good when we arrived. There was only one other party there and the place was quite and peaceful. We put on our kit and got ready to climb “Cascade de la Stassaz” WI5, only to realise there was a guide on his way to the ice fall with 6 younger kids. The place went from quiet and peaceful to carnage (a chimps tea party springs to mind). We were going to do a couple of lines on the large ice fall but by the time we had abbed off our initial line the guide had set up top ropes on all available climbing ice up to half height. We hung around a bit to see what was going down, but the place became a nightmare once the younger climbers started ripping ice off left, right and centre so we decided to bail. Better luck next time!
