At the weekend, I stood at the highest spot I've ever reached without boarding a plane. Richard Allaway and I took the cable car up to L'Aiguille du Midi.
The construction of this route was an amazing achievement, and took many years.
It's still the highest vertical ascent cable car in the world.
It involved the conquering of the peak, which stands at 12, 600 feet high... (although still well below the height of Mont Blanc)
Mont Blanc pictured - main summit in the centre... There are various other peaks that form part of the massif - we saw people doing some of the 'easier' aretes.
When we visited the upper most area was being developed.
It is going to have a SKY WALK a little like at the Grand Canyon, where there is a glass floor. That will be fairly awesome...
On the way up, Richard was videoing the trip on his iPhone and has speeded it up, so that the 20 ish minute trip is now just one minute and twenty seconds long.
The moment when the cable car finally broke through the clouds is one of those special ones that I'll always remember...
The construction of this route was an amazing achievement, and took many years.
It's still the highest vertical ascent cable car in the world.
It involved the conquering of the peak, which stands at 12, 600 feet high... (although still well below the height of Mont Blanc)
Mont Blanc pictured - main summit in the centre... There are various other peaks that form part of the massif - we saw people doing some of the 'easier' aretes.
When we visited the upper most area was being developed.
It is going to have a SKY WALK a little like at the Grand Canyon, where there is a glass floor. That will be fairly awesome...
On the way up, Richard was videoing the trip on his iPhone and has speeded it up, so that the 20 ish minute trip is now just one minute and twenty seconds long.
The moment when the cable car finally broke through the clouds is one of those special ones that I'll always remember...
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