Into the Clouds: Climbing Chamonix’s Via Ferrata Des Evettes

Into the Clouds: Climbing Chamonix’s Via Ferrata Des Evettes

Bonjour we are high in the Alps above shaman on what is supposed to be our rest day but Adam’s grand plan for the day is to do the Via Fara Des aets which he claims is supposed to be pretty easy with spectacular views but you and I

Both know that Adam’s idea of easy is far from the San person’s idea of easy so wish me luck Feel Brea in and go go You got it kind of eerie climbing in this fog isn’t it oh it’s so cool Wow that fog is really rolling through that F kind eer so Eerie you are just hanging off that Cliff face right now see the sun trying to poke Through Wow this is so cool with the sun trying to peek through this is so gorgeous up here oh man even with the clouds yeah it just feels like you’re in a different world well I did tell Elise this was easy and it’s not too strenuous but I did not

Mention this sketchy little Bridge hopefully she’ll be all right with it whoa wait what I’m not a tight R Walker come on this is tight no no no no no this is not that chill honestly it doesn’t look it’s way more sketchy than I thought it would

Be I just don’t have that much balance balance is not a gift I have been blessed with you got it Le my legs are shaking so hard right now you got it you got it come on you a lot of appreciation for all those people that do this without a v

I don’t think I was meant to be a tight RPP Walker that is for sure it’s kind of cool it’s called the letter box why is it call the letter box I guess cuz it looks like a French letter box what the letters we’re really in the cloud bank now at

These oh no all the way up in the clouds do you think that it’ll go away I don’t know this is heavy man you only see about 30 ft it’s kind of eerie this is getting pretty cool waa there you are oh my gosh yeah what are you supposed to do like a

Le back yeah it’s a layback good job all right Stars run the be careful huh the cloud has made this very SL right now I know my feet keep definitely slipping off these things wow up here we’re all alone and we will learn to oh boy here’s the real

Bridge this is going to be gnarly you guys this is sketchy wow whoa look at all that down there this is too crazy holy crap this thing is so gnarly hope you can see how much it’s shaking this is not chill he’s shaking so muching so I just really hope that

They’ve tested and retested and tested again for this bridge well you might not want to look at that broken wire on your left coming up stop it no oh my goodness that is not confidence no it does not oh man I am bouncing all over the place you are you’re doing good

Though oh Lord Okay well it turned out that the Viera was the safest thing we did scrambling around on these wet rocks at the top got me a actual injury these slick rocks are not messing around no fortunately we did bring Neosporin so maybe that’ll help T assential well I definitely lost a a

Good chunk of skin and a lot of blood a lot of blood gross this is the Alps for you this is it sun was predicted and if it had been sunny we would have had the most epic views behind us right now weather forecast was like yeah 100% chance of

Sun just clouds just CL but we got some sun earlier fortunately so you could see kind of what we would have been looking at yeah and I mean I still thought the Vado was really cool oh my God those bridges were really Bridges were awesome definitely I would come back and do this

Again if we knew there was going to be sun but I guess you never know yeah I would actually recommend this if you’re not afraid of heights too much that bridge I’m not afraid of heights at all and I was a little queasy on that bridge

Cuz it was just so wobbly and scary well and then the one the one cable that had broken off that did not really make me feel very good at all anyway I hope you guys love this one hope you had fun with us lots more to

Come ahead let us know what you think and see you next time out on the Alpine Trails the Alps are so crazy 1 second you are covered in clouds and 2 seconds later you have these beautiful views in front of you I just don’t understand Cler

100% chance of sun they said. Mont Blanc will look glorious they said. They were wrong. So wrong.

One supposedly sunny day in Chamonix, we set out on the Via Ferrata des Evettes (Via Ferrata des Evettes – La Flégère Chamonix-Mont-Blanc), which is a hiking and via ferrata route known as having some of the most spectacular views of Mont Blanc in the entire Chamonix area. Welp, as we all know, conditions in the alps can change rapidly, and today was an excellent example of this. Despite getting caught in a massive chilly fog, this was still an awesome day of hiking, adventuring, and it is one via ferrata we know will be spectacular on a clear day!

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