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Bruce Willey - Reader Blog 7 9/17/09 - Two fools rediscover the Aiguille du Fou, Smoke Blanchard’s lost route in the High Sierra - I had just climbed to one of those belays where living feels beautiful and life is sweet. Tying off a horn I call down “off-belay” to Greg with a certain amount of relief. Time, then, to fondle the view from 200 feet of the arête and wait for him to pull through the cruxes made apparent by the slow progress of the rope.