Controversy on the Mont Blanc Normal Route : new anchors removed by Christophe Profit

If there is one summit that exacerbates passions, it is Mont Blanc. No doubt also because of the number of aspirants – twenty thousand people – who want to climb the Roof of Europe every year. The problem is that Mont Blanc is becoming steeper and steeper. A large crevasse has opened up on the Bosses ridge. To get around it, you have to take a diversion to the left, or more directly, to the right. The guides of St-Gervais had decided to equip this passage with anchors, iron stakes, but this idea was not to the liking of the most famous guide of Chamonix, Christophe Profit, who removed two of the four anchors.

Mont Blanc is changing, like other mountains. The glaciers are opening up. The (short) ski touring season has seen skiers pass along the north face of Mont Blanc, skirting the crevasse before climbing the