Dry-Tooling and Ice Climbing in Chamonix, France

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Dry tooling in Le Zoo

Sweet Line: Dry tooling in Le Zoo. from sébastien montaz-rosset on Vimeo.

Kora Pesce and Peter Mason pre-season dry-tooling at the Zoo, a steep spot near Sallanches, in the French Alps. Music: ” Reggae” by BrunoXe ” Atlantis, Typhoon” by The Rest

Ice climbing, Mer de Glace

Sweet Line: Ice climbing, Mer de Glace. from sébastien montaz-rosset on Vimeo.

Here is the 4th episode of our “Sweet Lines” series. After bouldering, hilghlining and Dry tooling lines, the Je Ne Sais Quoi climbing team features an ice climbing spot. No frozen ice falls here in Chamonix yet (as of Early November, 2009), but Kora Pesce and Peter Mason found a some very aesthetic 90 foot glacial ice at Mer de Glace for some pre-season ice training. Music: “La Batalla” by La lola express

© 2009 Sébastien Montaz-Rosset Je Ne Sais Quoi films / jefilm.com

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