Chamonix: Les Gaillands vs. Le Brevent

Hi guys!

I had the opportunity to visit Chamonix at the foot of Mont Blanc in France to do some climbing in the mountains and we visited Les Gaillands and Le Brevent which are to two pretty centrally places sport climbing crags. I made a video about my thoughts of the two crags that might be of interest if you find yourself in the area :)

Watch it at https://youtu.be/2I29zBPBe1c. I hope you will enjoy :)

Well done and consistent with my experiamces there too

Gailands is fine just stay far away from the main area, there's some decent much steeper routes in other parts of the crag.

that guy named seb wrote: Gailands is fine just stay far away from the main area, there's some decent much steeper routes in other parts of the crag.

Yeah! Every time I come there I just keep getting disappointed. I've been to some of the smaller sectors, but it's the same. I would actually much rather go to Servoz just down the valley to climb the few dual-pitches they have there. Have any of you been there?

chasseurs is a decent area,try La Joux, vallorcine and from what i have seen barberine looks really cool, i quite enjoy "coupeau doigtsde fee pour coeur de lion" is quite a nice powerful 7a.

that guy named seb wrote: chasseurs is a decent area,try La Joux, vallorcine and from what i have seen barberine looks really cool, i quite enjoy "coupeau doigtsde fee pour coeur de lion" is quite a nice powerful 7a.

I talked with my group about going to La Joux, but then we changed plans because of the weather. Is it good?

Henrik Overballe wrote:

I talked with my group about going to La Joux, but then we changed plans because of the weather. Is it good?

I've quite enjoyed it, it's all slab and a bit soft, good edgy slab climbing though in the mid 6 range.

that guy named seb wrote:

I've quite enjoyed it, it's all slab and a bit soft, good edgy slab climbing though in the mid 6 range.

That sounds really great!