HIMALAYA, Big climb for two guides from Chamonix

Without his friend Patrick Wagon, which is preparing an expedition to Antarctica with Isabelle Autissier and Lionel Daudet in December, the party Trommsdorff-Graziani, carried out a huge climb Thursday in Nepal. In the region of Manaslu, the two guides based in Chamonix, but from Grenoble and Nice, climbed the 2 500 m of the face on the southern slope of Nemjung (7 140 m). They left for the route last Saturday, it took them more than five days to make the ascent in alpine style, ie without large logistics. "One of the nicest climbing in their life" according with a relative. Yesterday they came down to the base camp after about 2 km of cumulative abseil. The two companions are expected in France in late October. Le Dauphiné