May 11th, 2005 | 
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The Eugster Couloir on the North Face of the Aiguille du Midi was first skied in June 1977 by Laurent Giacomini. It averages out at between 50° and 55° over 500m of descent.
Anselme Baud says in his guide Mont Blanc and the Aiguilles Rouges: A Guide for Skiers
that the slope reaches 56° in places. This puts it in the toponeige
The 3306m Brèche Nonne Evêque is the obvious thin couloir in the center of the first picture.
First skied by Jean-Marc Boivin on the 21 April 1984. Anselme Baud’s Mont Blanc and the Aiguilles Rouges: A Guide for Skiers
This was probably the first steep ski mountaineering line that I did in the Chamonix valley. I hooked up with Graham Frost who had been in the area for a couple of years and knew the place well.
Then the battery went flat. The slope is the large one to the right of the rocky peak. There is about 1050m of climbing to get to the top of the slope and it gets a 5.1 grade.
On SkiTour.fr
This was one of the last times that I used 35mm film. A run down the Grnads Envers with my brother Matt, nice powder at the top and some hard chalky snow in the exit couloirs.
This is the first set of digital photos that I have. Looking at the EXIF data they came from a FujiFilm FinePix 1300 which is a camera that I dont remember having so I must have borrowed it.
The top pitch was a bit windblown and there were loads of tracks on it. The interesting part of the descent was when Dick’s ski popped off and slid into a crevasse, which gave us an impromptu opportunity to try out our crevasse rescue skills.