Chamonix, France: Unseasonably warm temperatures over the last 10 days has turned excellent North face climbing conditions into a bit of a nightmare.
What were once gleaming ice lines quickly turned into rotting slush on anything not North facing. A climber on the Eperon des Cosmiques (3700m) in s...
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