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In reply to har054:

youtube.com/watch?v=QVm4Ak3v-Po&

It is when this happens...

In reply to har054:

Does laughing at that make me a bad person?

In reply to har054: Glissaded down it many years ago from the usual crossing point. Seemed like a good idea a the time and went without incident. Only found out the significance of the Grand couloir when we got back down to the valley!

In reply to jamesboyle:

No, that is pretty funny. On a serious note, I've been across that couloir several times and have seen two near accidents with falling rocks (always in the afternoon). Not a good place to hang around (no pun intended).

In reply to fromthesouth:

Everyone who crosses that couloir without incident, wonders what all the fuss is about. This is understandable. Get hit by a rock in it and it takes on a whole different dimension. I speak from experience.

In reply to JTM: I witnessed a very large rucksack hurtling all the way down it and shit myself, as we thought it was a body.

In reply to har054:

managed to cross with no problem, then some fool dropped his axe from about 10 meters above and hit me square in the chest,

next day when returning we witnessed the end of a situation, just see a person being choppered away being dangled by there legs, i guess they were dead, most people just stopped and watched, which was unbelievable, there really are some idiots up in the high hills.

a few things i learned from a friend about crossing, firstly move fast, and if you are faced with shouts of 'rocks' make sure you have your rucksack waist buckle undone, so you can cover the back of your head in a crouching position

Paul T

In reply to har054:
Not great fun if you watch a 29 year old spaniard falling down it and exhaling his last breath as he hit the rock in front of you!

In reply to kent1:

Mountains are dangerous places...

In reply to James Jackson: Still would'nt class his experience as much fun.

In reply to kent1:

... or the three Lithuanians who fell from the traverse earlier this month. Their bodies couldn't be recovered by the PGHM for a long time afterwards due to the stonefall.

In reply to Stadler:

I laughed at first but then it started looking rather serious. What was he doing wrong to get into that postion?

In reply to kent1:

Or when you see the young guy I saw crossing as a boulder the size of car wheel bounced into him at hip height and snapped him in half.

In reply to Cerulean:

... or seeing a very attractive French lady with her new husband. She had a lovely tan and was obviously in a dream world having just got married and now climbing a big mountain on her honeymoon. That ended when a random block took the husbands head off. She broke down big time and will probably never recover.

In reply to ERU:

That is really sad. I hope I never have to witness something like that.