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A crucial link up a complex glacier through a high col, with an optional peak
The Ecrins Haute Route: France's Wildest Ski Tour
A wild tour in France's most untamed and inaccessible mountain range.
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La Grave, the starting point for the tour. Creative Commons: Attribution
Description
Make no mistake about it - this is a long, serious and "out-there" ski tour. To complete it you'll need skill, experience, good weather and a solid team to ski with. However (as with all difficult mountain endeavours) the rewards when the stars align are more than worth the effort you put in.
The Ecrins mountains are the domain of the true ski mountaineer and (unlike most of the French Alps) have been left wild, and free of sprawling ski resorts. The peaks are high and aesthetic and anyone who puts in the effort to wait for a weather window, plan and then execute this tour will be handsomely rewarded by a true mountains adventure.
Adventures
A famous ski mountaineering day, to the ski summit of the Dome des Ecrins (4015m) before a descent to the Glacier Blanc Hut
A mellow mountain journey through a high pass with a great descent
A relatively easy skin with a steepening to the final col before a nearly 2000m descent to finish.
A long climb to a high col with amazing views, then a traverse to a high hut- into the wilderness!
A steep S facing descent to be timed carefully for spring snow
Ascent of la Grande Ruine before a huge descent