Mont Blanc
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007After a year of planning, an ascension of a lower summit, and days of waiting for perfect conditions, a group of 20 somethings from Lausanne made a night climb of the highest peak in Western Europe (4807 meters – 15,771 feet), the famous Mont Blanc in France, and there installed a Jacuzzi.
This seems to have been inspired by their engineering spirit, their love of the mountain, and large quantities of beer.
Can you imagine struggling up to the summit, roped to your weathered guide, only to arrive at the top to find a party going on? What a disappointment… And some would say sacrilege. (They do apologize – at the bottom of the site page - to those who thought they were going to have the mountain to themselves that day.) Oh well, sometimes we only like things if they happen to be our own idea.
Click on the picture below to go to their site with all the pictures. It’s worth the trip.
