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The Tour Ronde is a modest mountain coming in at 3792m with its North Face being a firm established classic. When looking for a peak to acclimitise on having spent the previous 2 days driving which is uber fast to access and without any scarey-mega-death crevasses to cross, you don't have to look much further than this mountain.
Easily gained from the Torino (winter) room, we were up and down in no time and drinking wine and picking Jon's (Alpine Exposure) brain back in Chamonix.
Jon and Will had climbed the North Face Face of the Grande Jorassess via the Croz Spur with the Slovenian Start about 4 weeks previously and we were keen for some more beta.
"The N Face of the Grande Jorasses literally fascinated the climbers of the thirties and forties, and still continues to fascinate today's; even now, the face is as admired as as coveted as ever. It is high, awe-inspiring, beautiful, in superb surroundings...
Not only its structure, but is appearance is imposing: grey and red granite, bold, undeviating, unchanging, contrasting with the flowing, curving glacier, eternally present and eternally on the move..." The Mont Blanc Massif, Gaston Rebuffat.
Perhaps not as fast as Jon and Will, but somehow Matt & Di managed to climb one of the most famous faces in the world of alpinism.