Day 0: Arrive & Meet
Arrive in Chamonix. Do a gear check and grab some dinner in town.
Day 1: Prep day
Drive and approach the hut on Grand Paradiso. Enjoy some hot homemade pasta and get to be early.
Day 2: Prep day
Alpine start followed by a big mission up the Grand Paradiso. Tag the summit along with the summit scramble and head back down the glacier and all the way back to the car.
Day 3: Prep day
Today is another opportunity to climb and train at altitude on the Cosmiques traverse. Today can also be used as a rest day if needed.
Day 4: Approach and climb to the hut
Today will mainly be focused on doing an easy climb and relaxing at the Cosmiques hut and getting ready for the big climb tomorrow.
Day 5: Summit day
With a near midnight start we will work up the glacier past the Tacul and the Maudit, all the way to Mont Blancs summit. Once at the summit we will descend the Gouter route. Winding down the Bosses Ridge toward the Vallot shelter and down the snowfields to the hut.
Day 6: Descent
The most popular route, the Goûter Route, takes climbers through some of the most dramatic terrain in the Alps. From the Nid d'Aigle, the route winds up through the Grand Couloir, a notorious section of exposed couloir prone to rockfall, before reaching the relative safety of the Goûter Hut at 3,835 metres.