A photo-topo guide to the extensive winter icefall and mixed climbing to the west of Mont Blanc area, from St Gervais-Les-Bains to Annecy, and extending northwards as far as Cluses and south to Ugine. Very useful for Brits as this is the area that you drive through on your way to Chamonix.
Volume 1 covers Val Montjoie, Val d’Arly and the Aravis Mountains, more specifically: Les Thermes du Fayet, Les Contamines, Val Montjoie, Megève, Flumet, La Giettaz, Notre Dame de Bellecombe, Bout de Lac, Gorges de l'Arly, Le Reposoir, Mont Saxonnex, Les Glières, Manigod, Massif de la Tournette, Les Aravis and Rive Gauche de l'Arve.
NB It does not cover the main Chamonix Valley for which you will need Cascades autour du Mont Blanc Vol 1.
In French and English with and appendix of crag notes in German, Italian and Spanish.
Loads of colour photos and photo-topos.
By Philippe Batoux and Ludovic Seifert.
Card cover, 17.5cm x 12.5cm, 215 pages.
Published 2007.
ISBN: 2-9521881-5-7.