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Chamonix -Zermatt in 21 hours !

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 Doug 07 May 2008
ok, 21 hours 11 minutes

Surprised this hasn't made the news here but it seems the record for Chamonix-Zermatt by foot/ski has just been broken by Lionel Bonnel & Stéphane Brosse (both French).

from Kairn.com
21h11 min c'est le temps qui aura fallu aux deux skieurs alpinistes du Club Alpin Français, Lionel Bonnel et Stéphane Brosse, pour parcourir les 8600 m de dénivelé positif qui sépare Chamonix à Zermatt.

Uniquement a pieds et principalement en ski de randonnée, sans assistance technique (en transportant l'intégralité de leur matériel : ski, chaussures, corde, ...) les 2 athlètes sont partis de l'église de Chamonix ce vendredi 02 mai à 1h du matin pour rejoindre l'Eglise de Zermatt le même jour à 22h11
3 ravitaillement en boisons et nourritures étaient prévu a l'A Neuve, Bourg St Pierre et a la cabane de Valsorey.
Etablissant ainsi un nouveau temps de référence sur cet itinéraire emblématique, habituellement parcouru en 6 ou 7 jours.

Lionel BONNEL => CAF groupe Excellence, compétiteur de ski alpinisme et habitué des raids aventure
Stéphane BROSSE => CAF, compétiteur de ski alpinisme (3 fois champion du monde, 3 fois vainqueur de la Pierra Menta, 2 fois vainqueur de la PDG et vainqueur du Trofeo Mezzalama, record du Mt Blanc à ski Chamonix - Mt Blanc - Chamonix en 5h15).

Le parcours :

Chamonix
Argentière
col du chardonnet
col de la gd lui
l' A neuve village
le basset
bourg st pierre
col du sonadon
col du petit mt colon
col de l'évêque
col du mt brulé
col de valpeline
Zermatt

interview with Stéphane Brosse.

See http://www.kairn.com/article.html?id=1194

 beardy mike 07 May 2008
In reply to Doug: Holy double velvet comfort batman that is smokin fast! How much hright gain is that in a day? Isn't it something like 11000m?
 beardy mike 07 May 2008
In reply to Doug: THIS really IS news... Oi Ryan... over here!
OP Doug 07 May 2008
In reply to mike kann:
> (In reply to Doug) ...How much hright gain is that in a day? Isn't it something like 11000m?


8 600m according to the article
 SuperTed 07 May 2008
In reply to Doug:

Could well be wrong, but I think Jon Morgan did it in a day too, but not sure about route/mechanical aids etc.
 markryle 07 May 2008
In reply to SuperTed: the amazing thing about this is that they started at the church in Chamonix (much further than starting at the Grands Montets) then took the Grande Lui route (thus avoiding the vehicle assistance on the classic route.) I think Jon's attempt was via the classic route starting from Lognan as the top bin was closed. Unfortunately he was shut down by bad weather and had to escape to Arolla. Stéphane Brosse is also the Mont Blanc record-holder of course (again starting from the church in Chamonix.)

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