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The North Face (Petit Dru)*** TD+

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South face and SW ridge - Normal route & descent (Petit Dru) >>
850m. Classic '6 north faces' route. It's climbed by a succession of cracks, chimneys and diedres in a rather thuggish way. Ballerina moves learnt at the climbing wall are of no use here, and the grades will definitely feel harder. Dodgy route finding after the Niche. The first Quartz ledge doesn't traverse into the South ridge anymore. Decent bivouac site in the second quartz ledge a pitch from the top if in trouble.
Allain/Leininger 01/Aug/1935

Ticklists: Six classic alpine North Faces, Rebuffat's 100 Finest Routes in the Mont Blanc Massif.

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This climb is in 20 logbooks, and on 57 wishlists.

Hidden - Solo dnf - 2013

Drew M - AltLd - Sep/11 with Fred Lyon

Hidden - AltLd dnf - 23/Aug/11

Thuggy, loose, long and awesome. Traversed to the grande dru and descended down ridge (se) to single bolt belay. 8/9 abbs mostly on single bolt belays down to charpoua glacier.
Dave Searle - 17/Aug/11 with ben

Hidden - AltLd - 12/Aug/11

c'est bon
Greg Boswell - AltLd - 05/Jul/11 with Ally Swinton

no bad route for the start of the season!
Ally Baba - AltLd O/S - 05/Jul/11 with Greg Boswell

Hidden - 2011

tumbling wizard - Aug/10 with andrew marshall

blouise - 24/Aug/09 with alasdair buchanan

Hidden - 06/Aug/09

JonHarvey - AltLd O/S - 06/Aug/09 with Jay Jackson

Brilliant route, managed to simul climb the entire thing, swapping leads every 150m. The whole route was very much in 'alpine mixed' comdition with verglass the whole way. Despite this motsly climbed in rock boos. Epic descent after Tom dropped the guidebook, so ended up abseiling blindly down the nw ridge, which took longer then the route. 9h to the tpop.
lukehunt - AltLd - 26/Jul/09 with Tom Ripley, Hamish Dunn

HamishD - AltLd O/S - 26/Jul/09 with Luke Hunt, Tom Ripley

Pete Graham - AltLd - Jul/09 with Malcolm Scott

Hidden - AltLd - 06/Aug/08

with Pavel Bujakiewicz
michaelja - AltLd - Aug/91

shark - AltLd - 21/Aug/85 with Phill Dickens

Hit by block, broken fingers as moving into niche. Other attempts but seem destined not to do this route
David Smith - AltLd dnf - Jul/82 with Al Bennett

mark-abz - AltLd - Aug/81 with Walter P

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