Matt, Lena and I headed up the Aiguille du Midi telepherique with the intention of climbing the Left Edge on Mont Blanc du Tacul, our second climb as a rope of 3. As usual it was CRAZY busy in the bins to the top, and there was all the normal madness on the snow ridge heading down to the Vallee Blanche. 
We timed our descent down the ridge to miss most of the groups.
This wasn't the clear and bright weather day that we were forecast! Clouds!
Trails of ants leading off in all directions.
Vallee Blanche with the normal 'campsite' seen on the right hand side. Our objective just left of centre in the photo - the 'Left Edge'.
Ahead of us 2 teams of 2 high on the route, and a guided team on 3 just started on the route. We're about an hour behind the last team - the penalty for missing the first bin! 
Lena having fun on the first mixed section of the route. 
After a while the weather started to close in and the clouds were lowering, we made the difficult decision to ab off before we lost all vis on the Tacul. That's me above. 
Matt abseiling down the mixed slot. As we started to walk across the Vallee Blanche, the cloud hit us and vis went down to 40m. Lena led the team into, and across the white. After lots of walking in the white room, we popped out on the other side of the Vallee, converging with other teams of ants appearing from the cloud and took our place on the ridge to the summit. As it turned out we weren't the only team to turn back due to the poor weather. I was glad that we made a timely decision. It was a great day. This was the end of Matt's holiday as he had to get a flight at 7.30am the next day..
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