I have just got back from an over night work training trip into the mountains. This is a pic of me scaling the almost vertical slope of a scary mountain. (Or it could be me falling over on a flat snowy slope, you decide) We landed at a hut halfway up the mountain. Then we walked up to the top. There was alot of snow around and it would heve been great to be able to snowboard down the mountain. Some of the slopes we were climbing up were damn steep with a nasty runout at the bottom. A few places would have killed you if you slipped and slid on the ice or snow.









This is the crew













This is a look at about the only blue sky we saw on the whole trip. Check out my nasty beard. I am thinking of keeping it until Christmas so i can go to the work Xmas party as Santa Claus (or ZZ Top)



































This is a look at the hut we stayed in. I am standing on the heli-pad that we landed on. The pad is perched right on the edge of the cliffs that fall off into the Upper Icefall of the glacier. Check out the toilet. We landed here and then walked back down after our first days climbing.









This is the view from the toilet. I took this as I was "relaxing" early on the second morning. The view is so good that it is a shame to close the door, but you had to be on your toes as there are quite a few helicopters flying by. If they catch you with your pants down, you could end up in some poor tourist's photos. The second day was mostly walking out to a heli-pad on the glacier. We had to grovel down steep slippery rocks and waterfalls to get to the glacier far below the hut.