New Gouter Hut, million euros project & Japanese dies in the Aiguilles Rouges

The new Gouter Hut is a very complex project. Some prefer a completely new one, other prefers to improve the actual one. The Alpine Club Federation says that building a new hut will make easier to manage the amount of people that try every year to climb Mont Blanc. The new hut will have 140 places (40 more than now). Christophe Profit says the opposite, if the new hut has more space, this will attract more people to the top of Europe. He defends that the Gouter Hut should disappear, if you want to climb Mont Blanc you should start from the Tete Rousse hut, with a adventure spirit back to the hold times. This way, the normal route to Mont Blanc will become a really alpine route and harder. But now there is a new issue... the price of the new hut, 8 million euros, and today, only 4 million have been found... The project has been suspended for the moment and the Saint Gervais Mayor says that for the moment the most important is to review the security measures of the actual Gouter Hut. MOUNTAINS: A Japaneses gets killed in the Aiguilles Rouges A Japanese climber, 59 years old, got killed yesterday in the Gaspard Point (Aiguilles Rouges range). He made a mistake during an abseil that was lethal to him. The PGHM recovered his body and also his partner, that was 100% safe. Le Dauphiné