Our final mission

And so we reached the pinnacle of our trip literally, to climb Aiguille Dibona.

At over 3000 meters, the tower of rock that is Dibona is superb. With our route Visite Obligatiore taking one of the best lines on over 300 meters of 6a ground. We walked up to the mountain refuge the previous day allowing us plenty of time to ascend in the morning. Although this time we were climbing with a huge pack containing our mountain boots for the snowy descent. The climb was absolutely amazing, lots of varied pitches on excellent, steep rock. The second always had a hard time hauling up the huge pack but it was easily worth it. It took us 12 hours in total, 9 or so climbing followed by 3 more hours to descend back to the comfort of the van. Not bad on 1 litre of water and a Lion bar!

An incredible route and an incredible end to all our climbing efforts.