A moody walk up the side of the Glacier du Bonne Pierre, As you head up a ridge of earth, carved by the glacier, you are surrounded by mountains on all sides. In front of you is a sheer and intimidating face riddled with long cracks running almost un-broken from bottom to top, occasionally interrupted by a smear of ice across the rock. The ridge line at the top is aggressive and jagged only occasionally showing the scale of the Glacier which sits above, enshrouded in cloud. As we climbed the clouds were looming over the mountain tops whilst rocks fell almost continuously onto the glacier from the high faces opposite, echoing delicately around the valley. After reaching an automatic weather station at just over 2900m a mix of hail and rain started falling and we commenced our descent towards La Berarde. Walking towards a spectacular view of the Veneon valley towards St Christope.