A thoroughly comprehensive guide describing all the routes on the North Face of the Grandes Jorasses in the Mont Blanc Range. These are some of the longest and most technical routes in the alps and consequently the ascent of any of them is a much prized achievement. A visually stunning pocket sized volume containing a superb collection of photos that will have you drooling in anticipation!
It describes all the climbs on the North Face, all the mixed routes on the East Face and the descent routes on the South Face.
The guide contains full route descriptions, detailed phototopos and diagrams and a historical overview - also included are tips helping climbers to analyse conditions and the best times to attempt a route.
In French and English.
By Julien Désécures.
Card cover, 17.5cm x 12.5cm, 212 pages.
Published 2013.
ISBN: 978-2-918824-15-2.