31 May Plein Sud a new ice couloir on Jorasses

 
Great achievement on the South wall  of Pt Walker – Grandes Jorasses 4206 m.
 
On May 22, in 10 hours Sergio De Leo, Marcello Sanguineti, Marco Appino and Michel Coranotte, after a bivouac at the base, carried out the new ascent of a very long couloir up to Tronchey ridge upstream the Third Tower at 200 mt from the top
 
The first section of the couloir was climbed by  Giancarlo Grassi together with  Renzo Luzi and Mauro Rossi in 1985, when they first climbed   “Via in memoria di Gianni Comino”, then turning up to left and solving an ice-falls system.
 
De Leo, Sanguineti, Appino and Coranotte went straight to a beautiful goulotte that in final section became a big chimney scarce in ice. 
 
The team rappelled shortly under the Tronchey ridge.
 
An important accomplishment and a great adventure. Soon Marcello Sanguineti’s report.
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Plein Sud VI, WI4+/5R, M6+, 900m
  
Source:up-climbing see also
 
Ph: Marcello Sanguineti (Grivel – Trango World) and Sergio de Leo