It's only the 4th time that some skis touch the snow on the Glacier de la Noire, 800m of steep ski in the flanks of the Vallée Blanche and the Dent du Géant. Anselme Baud had skied the first time on that face and Emmanuel RATOUIT skied it 3 years ago, finding a passage on the right of the serac. A passage was created thanks to the climate warming. "I love these routes, a lot of route finding, where we must change slope/couloir several times", explains the extreme skier. This time he was with his friend Christopher Bressand, on the April 9th. Objective: to ski again the extraordinarily Glacier de la Noire. But the conditions changed in the top of the glacier, making the passage that he used 3 years ago, very delicate. They had to change the route. After a abseil of 50m, they went for another couloir on the left, that avoids that break in the top of the Glacier. Great atmosphere in this beautiful couloir, which leads back to the Glacier de la Noire. In an excellent cold snow, they skied down this route at 55° in 100m and 250m at 50°. "We had to do another abseil of 20 m to join the glacier. Under the cold snow, the rock was not too far ...! " The end was in a powder snow "grandiose", this part of the descent is always in the shade. CHAMONIX: The French Army champions were in Chamonix Mont Blanc They had excellent results in all the competitions and even the Olympic Games in Vancouver and they are under contract with the French Army. The biathlon athletes Vincent Jay, Vincent Defrasne, Sandrine Bailly, the skiers David Poisson, Tessa Worley or Ingrid Jacquemot, the cross country skiers Vicent Vittoz, Karine Philippot and Rody Daragon, they were Tuesday at the military school in Chamonix (EMHM). Only Jean-Baptiste Grange was missing. The opportunity to salute their "boss" the French Team Military Commander, Persicot Christian, who will be retired soon and will devoted himself to the candidacy of Annecy 2018. Le Dauphiné
