as you would imagine, its pretty cool inside, and way blue. the cable are slowly melting troughs in the ice, very slowly, but then not much happens quickly in a glacier. Thanks Dad for a nice colourful counterpoint.
Sunday, September 25, 2005
Glacier_ICE_cave
This is a pic I took of the Glacier up close and personal, every year they dig a tunnel, sloping upward, so it doesn't fill with water and drown tourists, although that would have its uses. So each year the cave moves, with the glacier, as you can see. I have helpfully annotated the photograph....nice.
mer du glace, a glacier
This is the Mer de Glace, the sea of ice, the largest Galcier in France, second largest in Europe. Amazing sight, and much more tangible than the Mont Blanc experiance. Is looks like a sea of rocks because it hasn't snowed for a few months, but there is a river of Ice moving at 90cm a month under there. eirriee!
Top of the world ma, and Buffy
We had this sign made, and I put my mum and Buffy next to it, we are standing in the sun, in my back yard, we never went up a mountain, I stole these pictures from the web, what do you think I'm stupid?
The context of a lunatic
And this is the camera NOT on full zoom. i mean the person looked small before, but this is just rediculous. and the lift closes a few hours from when this photo was taken, GET A MOVE ON!
a lunatic
this a person (too small to tell who, or what sex) walking around at the top of the Aguille du midi.
looking down
I think this is the best one I took that really captures the height, that's Chamonix in the valley below, a whole town! And the Aiguille du midi cable car station below me. with the combination of the staggering height and the thin air, it made us all very light headed. I saw some elderly people passed out in the corridors, unable to get enough air to breath, and small children running around and blacking out, it was horrible, and the guides just stood there with their oxygen tanks, laughing. There should definatley be a health warning somewhere... or something.
arriving at the Aiguille du midi cable car station
Taken through the old perspex of the cable car window, gives a nice impression, this is us coming into the station at the top of the Aguile du Midi, sillhouetted by the sun, I'm looking almost straight up here as well, man it was steep.
view from the aiguille du midi cable car
This is the terrifying view from the Cable car on the way up to the Aguille du Midi, the three quarters way up Mont Blanc, and the highest cable cr in the world. It is terrifying in so many ways, but I was saved from this but the all consuming BO of twenty people, who I was shareing the cabine with, thank goodness for the lack of Hygene!
the Mont Blanc cable car departure point
Buffy - Bonjour Chamonix, I have returned, this time, it was open, sorry John and Adele, but I did not do it on purpose.
Wednesday, September 14, 2005
the ugliest dog in the world
take the worst kind of poodle, now take an old version, now shave it, now make it randy, and obsessed with its owners leg, now make its owner the spitting image of the dog, and you have what we saw in the place Vaucanson the other weekend. It was being dragged around by its owner and it would not stop humping her leg, bizzare, we had to drive around again for a (slightly) better shot...
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