THE CLIMBERS: Grépon · Vintage Reinhold Messner · Chris Bonington

A classic climb of the Aiguille du Grépon, informally known as The Grepon, is a mountain in the Mont Blanc Massif in Haute-Savoie, France. The Grepon has a Southern and Northern peak, which are the highest points of a sharp granite ridge to the east of the Glacier des Nantillons above Chamonix and northeast of the Aiguille du Midi. Recreating in tweeds, woollen socks and old boots, recreating the ascent by Alfred Mummery in 1881.
Reinhold Messner and Chris Bonington add their commentary.

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The Climbers—A History of Mountaineering. Chris Bonington:

Chris Bonington is well acquainted with the history of mountaineering and he is an excellent writer. This is certainly the right combination to make this a very worth-while addition to climbing literature:

My attention was caught immediately by the first chapter, a description of Albert Frederick Mummery’s first ascent of the Grépon with the Swiss guides, Alexander Burgener and Benedict Venetz. That outstanding pioneer and developer of the art of climbing was indeed modern in the way he went about it and seems to tie the Victorian age perfectly to present-day climbing. Bonington strengthened that tie even more by repeating Mummery’s climb with two French guides, using tweed clothing, nailed boots and equipment of the earlier epoch, albeit substituting nylon rope for the much less safe manila hemp.

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