Thankfully, there was no breakfast foe pars this morning. All went well until we tried to walk. It seems that a 2300-meter descent from the Aiguille du Midi yesterday really hadn’t agreed with our aging muscles. Rob was dragging himself about like Ivor the Boneless.
We therefore decided to take it easy choosing to take the Chemin De Fer Du Montenvers up to the Montenvers hotel and glacier. It is a rack and adhesion railway meaning it runs on a combination of rack and pinion and conventional friction wheels. It takes about 20 minutes to climb the 871 meters to the glacier.
Sad to think that this will completely have disappeared in 50 years due to global warming.
A series of steel staircases take you down to the glacier, which at first glance just looks like rocks, but as you get closer, you realise the rocks are sitting on top of the ice.
The Mer de Glace (Sea of Ice) is the largest glacier in France, 7km long and 200m deep and is one of the biggest attractions in the Chamonix Valley.
Shhhh don’t tell anyone, I removed a bit.
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