tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5785264445492636926.post4772167359450784776..comments2024-01-25T13:12:42.734+01:00Comments on Krister Jonsson / IFMGA Mountainguide: Cordier Pilier on Grand CharmozKrister Jonssonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11875569055080471039noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5785264445492636926.post-55344367457514513722013-11-28T19:19:49.769+01:002013-11-28T19:19:49.769+01:00Cool! Thanks for your comment, very interesting re...Cool! Thanks for your comment, very interesting reading! I hope you´r still ¨on the rocks¨ and not in to much pain from the frostbite!?<br />Sincerely/ KristerKrister Jonssonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11875569055080471039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5785264445492636926.post-71171936058570112992013-11-11T13:19:47.347+01:002013-11-11T13:19:47.347+01:00Hello
Nice remembering for me.
I was on the first ...Hello<br />Nice remembering for me.<br />I was on the first ascent. Patrick lead the route all the way with Thierry Fagard as second. I was leader of the second rope with Gary as second. <br />Gary was a Canadian from Calgary, he left Chamonix some time after, and I never had news of him after. Thierry is still living, I heard today of him by a friend, Jean Afanassieff, he is visiting me on my home in the south of France. As you know Patrick is dead in a motorcyle accident.<br />But even if I had not to find the route it was quite difficult for me. Six month before I had my left foot frozen in the first winter ascent of the north face of Col du Plan, with Patrick. When we made the Charmoz ascent I had still a dry gangrene at my foot, with big dressings (pansements), and I had to climb in winter mountain shoes, not climbing shoes like the others. It was not the same play ! Thierry had to gave me a little aid on some passages, as the big crack on the second part of the route. It was four month later that the dead part of my frozen and gangrened toe (the big one) falled down. I am still suffering a bit of it when the weather is very cold. <br />So many years later, I think it was quite crazy for me to made this ascent in so surprising conditions !<br />But anyway I remember it as a very nice climbing.<br />Sincerely<br />Sylvain Jouty<br />www.jouty.comAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com