Not everyone knows, or is perhaps interested in knowing, the difference between the focusing ring and aperture ring on a manual camera. Compound that with a brain fuddled by altitude and exhaustion, and you have a recipe for a less than perfect photograph when you hand your camera to a complete stranger on the summit of Mont Blanc, asking him if he would kindly record for you your moment on the highest point in Western Europe.

View to Mont Blanc de Coumayeur
from Mont Blanc summit

Summit of Mont Blanc

Sunrise on the Peuterey ridge
and Mont Blanc from Val Ferret

Razor pitch, arete des Ecandies

 

Midi-Plan traverse,
heading back to the Aiguille du Midi

 

Washing the dishes with a tea bag,
Gonella hut, Mont Blanc

Mont Dolent from Lac de Fenetre

 

On the Table de Roc route,
Aiguille de Tour

Pain de Sucre
near Grand St-Bernard Pass

On the crux pitch, Table de Roc route,
Aiguille de Tour

Penny-pinching bivouac
next to the Albert-Premier hut

A spring ascent of Mont Telliers on skis,
Mont Velan behind

Razor pitch, arete des Ecandies

Completing the main part of the north
face of the Aiguille d`Argentière

Razor pitch, arete des Ecandies

Statue in Chamonix of Mont Blanc`s
first ascentionists

Aiguille du Midi from the Midi-Plan traverse

Chamonix Aiguilles from
the Col des Montets

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