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Major Route, Mont Blanc, Luca Rolli, Francesco Civra Dano

Major Route Mont Blanc: the line of descent down the East Face, skied by Luca Rolli and Francesco Civra Dano on 6 May 2016. - Photo by Luca Rolli / Francesco Civra Dano

Major Route Mont Blanc: the line of descent down the East Face, skied by Luca Rolli and Francesco Civra Dano on 6 May 2016.

Major Route Mont Blanc: one turn after the next leads to the Brenva Gran Couloir. The ambient seems like the Himalaya, the snow is perfect

Major Route Mont Blanc: after descending off the summit plateau, we downclimb for 15m between the seracs. A short abseil leads to the start of the difficulties: we're totally concentrated

Major Route Mont Blanc: after climbing for 6 hours through total darkness the sun rises. We're immediately below the the gigantic seracs that bar the way to the summit plateau. The moment has come for the final push

Major Route Mont Blanc: 5 May, midday at the Fourche bivouac at 3682m. We're smiling. For the moment at least...

Major Route Mont Blanc: on the summit! We're only halfway, but we know that the route is skiable and in perfect conditions

Major Route Mont Blanc: we continue the descent. We've skied circa 1000 vertical meters, have another 2300 circa to go.

Major Route Mont Blanc: close to the end of the Brenva glacier. When the Entreves village pops into view, we can celebrate!

The magnificent East Face of Mont Blanc. The photo was taken from the summit of Tour Ronde