Voie Frison-Roche 5.10
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| Type: | Sport, 6 pitches, 650 feet |
| Consensus: | 5.10b [details] |
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| Submitted By: | Seleucus on Jul 15, 2012 |
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Description This route is a true classic in the Aiguille Rouges. It maintains a fairly consistently difficulty throughout. The 4th and 5th pitches are real beauties with fantastic cracks somewhat anomalous for the Aiguilles Rouges.
Pitch 1 (5.10a): The first pitch moves from a bolt on the face at the end of the approach path. From here, the climb move up the pillar and follows the bolt line. One or two difficult moves lead to a grassy ledge at the end of which is a belay before the next vertical section.
Pitch 2 (5.8): Go up straight and then traverse right until you reach the belay ledge.
Pitch 3 (5.9): This short pitch goes up a broken but juggy crack system with somewhat loose holds.
| Climbing Pitch 3 on Voie Frison-Roche
Submitted By: Seleucus on Jul 15, 2012
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Pitch 4 (5.10b): Go up the bolt line on a slabby face until you reach a 10m vertical crack. Pull through this crack, the crux, and belay at the top.
| Climbing the Crux on Pitch 4 of Voie Frison-Roche.
Submitted By: Seleucus on Jul 15, 2012
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Pitch 5 (4th class): From the belay go to the left and then right until you reach the obvious dihedral with a big crack in the center of it.
Pitch 6 (5.9): Climb up the crack in the center of the dihedral pulling through a few difficult sections to reach the belay at the top.
| The last pitch of the route Voie Frison-Roche
Submitted By: Seleucus on Jul 15, 2012
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Location The easiest way to reach the route is to take the Telepherique to Planpraz and then to Brevent. From here follow the main trail north. At the col continue east (along the ski piste) toward Chamonix. At the second switchback leave the trail and follow a trail of cairns to the trending toward the rock face. At the end of the trail, you'll see a bolt at the base.
From the top, you can walk to the telepherique by going left along the top of the cliff. You can take the telepherique down back to Chamonix. Alternatively you can hike to Planpraz and from there to Chamonix.
Protection Very well bolted.
Guidebooks The following guidebooks have descriptions of this route (and typically many others in the region).
English Language
Les Aiguilles Rouges Volume 1 (Michel Piola)
French
Plasir West (Jürg von Känel)
Escalades Choisies: Mont-Blanc, Aiguilles Rouges (Glenant)
Les Aiguilles Rouges (Thomas Dulac and Godefroy Perroux)
Climbing Pitch 3 on Voie Frison-Roche
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Climbing the Crux on Pitch 4 of Voie Frison-Roche....
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The last pitch of the route Voie Frison-Roche
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BETA PHOTO: Le Brevent from Chamonix
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