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First 4000m Peak? 🏔️🎒❄️⛏️🪢🇮🇹 Descending from the summit of Gran Paradiso, aptly called Big Paradise judging by these views! It’s a brilliant choice of your first Alpine 4000m peak. Enjoy glaciers, scrambling, altitude, and ropework. 〽️ icicle-mountaineering.ltd.uk/alpine%2Bintro… 📍Gran Paradiso

Alpine Autonomy 🏔️🎒❄️⛏️🪢🇫🇷 Collection of photos from our Chamonix based Alpine autonomy course, to boost your stills to a level to attempt some routes unguided, after learning key skills in ropework, glacier travel, anchors, & hoists. 〽️ icicle-mountaineering.ltd.uk/alpine%2Bauton… 📍Chamonix

NEW Mont Blanc record! 🏔️🎒❄️⛏️🏃‍♂️🪂⛷️🇫🇷 Benjamin Vedrines ascends Mont Blanc from Chamonix up & down, breaking Kilian Jornet’s 2013 record by 3 mins, setting a new time of 4h 54min 41sec. 〽️ explorersweb.com/benjamin-vedri… 🎥 Kilian youtu.be/2fTl75jySdY 〽️ icicle-mountaineering.ltd.uk/mont+blanc+gui…

Granite Needles 🏔️🎒❄️🇫🇷🧗‍♂️🇮🇹 Perhaps it’s even more spectacular on a cloudy day, but this epic needle is one of the highlights of the frontier ridge crest of Aiguille d’Entreves, and climbing it just makes you smile! 〽️ icicle-mountaineering.ltd.uk/classics.html 📍 Chamonix Mont Blanc #chamonix

Alpine Short Roping 🏔️🎒❄️⛏️🪢🇫🇷 Icicle teams practicing short roping skills on the Arete Lolo and Cosmiques traverse, on our Alpine Autonomy Techniques course in Chamonix. We can’t wait for our Alpine summer season to start soon! Join us… 〽️ icicle-mountaineering.ltd.uk/alpine%2Bauton… #Chamonix

Matterhorn Hörnli 🏔️🎒❄️⛏️🪢🇨🇭 Icicle team passing one of the exposed towers on the Hörnli Arête on the Matterhorn. It gives you an insight into how exposed the route is. Never too difficult, but unrelenting. Next date 6-12 July. 〽️ icicle-mountaineering.ltd.uk/matterhorn.html 📍Matterhorn 4478m

Summit Sea Of Clouds 🏔️🎒❄️⛏️🪢🇫🇷 Descending from the summit of Mont Blanc, along the Bosses Arête, towards the Vallot hut. A stunning sea of clouds below the Icicle team. Next space 29 June, then 20 July. Grab the spaces quick! 〽️ icicle-mountaineering.ltd.uk/mont+blanc+gui… 📍Mont Blanc 4810m

Matterhorn Summit Steps… 🏔️🎒❄️⛏️🪢🇨🇭 Throwback to footage of Icicle team of Ervin guiding Faisal the final steps to the summit of the iconic Matterhorn. No fish eye 360 lenses here, so you see it exactly as it is. Next date 13-19 July. 〽️ icicle-mountaineering.ltd.uk/matterhorn.html #zermatt

Alpine Intro 4000m 🏔️🎒❄️⛏️🪢🇮🇹 Icicle teams on Gran Paradiso, the highest peak completely in Italy, and a perfect first 4000er. It’s the most popular culmination of our Chamonix based Alpine Intro course. 〽️ icicle-mountaineering.ltd.uk/alpine%2Bintro… 📍Gran Paradiso 4061m

Monte Rosa Summits 🏔️🎒❄️⛏️🪢🇮🇹 Last minute opportunity to join our 4000m peak bagging week 22-28 June (1 space). Stay in mountain huts each night, with 5 days IFMGA guiding, and Chamonix accommodation each end. Get in touch! 〽️ icicle-mountaineering.ltd.uk/monterosa4000e… 📍Gressoney, Monte Rosa

The 20 year flashback 🏔️🎒❄️⛏️🪢🇨🇭 We were delighted to receive a summit photo from Paul the other day, twenty years after he’d climbed the Matterhorn with us, guided by Ervin. As we’re now in our 25th year, this brought back happy memories! 〽️ icicle-mountaineering.ltd.uk/matterhorn.html

Alps behind the scenes! 🏔️🎒❄️⛏️🪢💻 While our groups were climbing today in Monte Rosa, Gran Paradiso, and all over the Mont Blanc massif, we got all our Alpine safety equipment PPE inspected. An unseen, but vital job, for safety. Lots of shiny kit! 〽️ icicle-mountaineering.ltd.uk/courses.html

Paradiso Paradise 🏔️🎒❄️⛏️🪢🇮🇹 Congratulations to our teams on Gran Paradiso today. All to the summit at 4061m. Good conditions reported. Thanks to Martin & Andrew for the great photos. Well done team! 〽️ icicle-mountaineering.ltd.uk/mont+blanc+gui… 📍Gran Paradiso 4061m #climbing #granparadiso

Midi Plan Traverse! 🏔️🎒❄️⛏️🪢🇫🇷 Awesome efforts from Harry and Mebs, guided by Marc, to climb the whole Midi Plan traverse from the first lift yesterday. Well done, and for grabbing the weather window! 〽️ icicle-mountaineering.ltd.uk/summer%2Bnorth… 📍Midi-Plan Traverse, Chamonix Mont Blanc

Cosmiques Birthday 🏔️🎒❄️⛏️😎🇫🇷 One of our teams celebrated their birthday yesterday on the Arete des Cosmiques. Awesome photos from guides Juan and Luca, leading two different teams. 〽️ icicle-mountaineering.ltd.uk/courses.html 📍Arête des Cosmiques, Aiguille du Midi 3842m #chamonix #climbing

Matterhorn Summit 💪🏔️🎒❄️⛏️🇨🇭 Congratulations to Marc and Ward on reaching the summit of the Matterhorn today, on the first day the Hornli hut opened. Stunning photos. Epic climb. Well done! 〽️ icicle-mountaineering.ltd.uk/matterhorn.html 📍Matterhorn 4478m #zermatt #matterhorn #hornlihutte

Madonna soleggiata! 🏔️🎒❄️⛏️🇮🇹☀️ Sunny Madonna statue on the summit of Gran Paradiso, for our teams guided by Pablo and Giovanni. Perfect weather, and good snow cover on the glacier. Well done everyone for reaching the summit. 〽️ icicle-mountaineering.ltd.uk/courses.html 📍Gran Paradiso 4061m

Fun in the sun! 🏔️🎒❄️⛏️😎 Cooler weather across the Alps forecast in Monday. Staying on ridges until the temperatures dip. Lots of smiles in the sun, this hot week in the Alps. 〽️ icicle-mountaineering.ltd.uk/courses.html 📍Aiguille du Midi 3842m #canicule #climbing #cosmiques #aiguilledumidi

Matterhorn Sunrise 🌄🏔️🎒❄️⛏️🇨🇭 Short video clip of an ascent last week. Good luck to all those this week on Matterhorn and Eiger ascents. Thanks to Marc for the clips. Only a few spaces still available this summer. 〽️ icicle-mountaineering.ltd.uk/matterhorn.html 📍 Matterhorn 4478m

Monte Rosa Sun 😎 🏔️🎒❄️⛏️🇮🇹 Great photos from Fer guiding Heather & Monica on Monte Rosa last week. Congratulations on ticking 6x 4000m peaks! Great efforts and awesome conditions. 〽️ icicle-mountaineering.ltd.uk/monterosa4000e… #climbing #monterosa #gressoney #iciclemoutaineering #25anniversary