This afternoon Mark (one of the GAs) kindly offered to take me up onto Reptile Ridge for an afternoon of walking / scrambling / basic climbing. For this we had to be roped together and carry all manner of 'jingly janglies' (that's a technical term -obviously!-for the clever bits of mountaineering metalwork), including ice axes and crampons.
The first task was to hike up the slope at Vals and cross the small bergschund at the top (posh word for a crevasse near the head of a mountain glacier where the peak emerges from the glacier, so I'm lead to believe anyway), it was only a small one and we were soon up and onto the Ridge, which offers lovely views out over Ryder Bay. We hiked along the Ridge for the next 4 hours. A brilliant way to spend a Saturday afternoon :o)
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