Dent du Requin East Face..

The warm weather has continued to dominate the conditions in Chamonix this week and rock routes are probably the way forward at the moment.

With this in mind Mike Pescod (Abacus), Peter, John and I decided to visit the East Face of the Dent du Requin (3422m) to climb the classic 'Voie Renaudie' 570m, D. This fantastic route climbs some high quality granite in it's upper section before reaching a table top sized summit over looking the Mer de Glace.

A relatively simple descent including some scrambling and abseils took us down to glacier, and the reward of an omelette in the Requin Hut..