Les Grandes Jorasses - Face Nord II

Probably the most iconic, certainly the most difficult north face in the whole Mont-Blanc range, les Grandes Jorasses certainly deserved a second poster at Mont Blanc Lines! Compared to the other view (the very first poster I ever made!), this one shows the bottom of the routes and has a slightly different angle, showing the NE faces better (Hirondelles ridge, Desmaison and Manitua headwalls in particular) and hiding the NW ones (most notably losing the Colton-MacIntyre entirely). As a bonus, the E face is mostly visible, which allowed me to add the legendary Gervasutti and modern testpieces such as Little Big Men, Groucho Marx and the Grand Dièdre.

Route List

1: Arête de Tronchey, TD- 5c, Croux, Gilberti, 1936

2: Grand Dièdre, ED 6c A2, Dumarest, Gabarrou, 2006

3: Voie Gervasutti, ED- 6a A2, Gaggliardone, Gervasutti, 1942

4: Little Big Men, ED+ 6a M6 A3, Batoux, Daudet, 2006

5: Groucho Marx, ED 6b A3, Delisi, Delisi, 1981

6: BoRat, ED 7b, Bonniot, Ratel, 2013

7: Marine Marchande, TD+ WI5+ M4, Désécures, Robach, 2007

8: Arête des Hirondelles, D 5c A1, Croux, Owen Jones, Knubel, Yung, 1911

9: Coulée Douce, D+ WI3 M4, Delmas, Perroux, 1985

10: Ma Ika, D+ 5c, Sokolowski, Wlodarczak, 2004

11: Hugues d’En Haut, TD- WI4+ X R, Coranotte, Gabarrou, 2008

12: Petite MacIntyre, TD- WI4 M4, MacIntyre, Rhodes, Todd, 1976

13: Le Linceul, TD- WI4 M4, Desmaison, Flematti, 1968

14: Directe à la Pointe Walker, ED- WI5+ M5, Sachetat, Séguier, 1983

15: Monomania, ED WI5+ M7 X R, Désécures, Sourzac, 2010

16: Goussault-Desmaison, ED WI5 6a M7 R, Bertone, Claret, Desmaison, 1973 

17: Scala di Seta, ED WI5 6a A2 X R, Gordon Smith, Sorenson, 1977

18: Rolling Stones, ED+ WI5+ 6a M6 A3 R, Kutil, Prochaska, Schlechta, Svejda, 1979

19: Directissime de la Walker, ED+ 7a A2, Bouvard, Gabarrou, 1986

20: Voie Cassin, Éperon Walker, ED- 6a, Cassin, Esposito, Tizoni, 1938

    A: Dièdres Allain-Rébuffat

    B: Dièdre de 75m

    C: Rappel Pendulaire

    D: Tour Grise/Dalles Noires

    E: Dalles Grises

    F: Névé Triangulaire

    G: Cheminée Rouge

    H: Tour Rouge

21: Couloir des Japonais, ED WI6 M6+ X R, Kanda, Kato, Miyazaki, Nakano, Saito, 1972

22: Goulotte Alexis (sortie), ED+ WI5+ 6b A2 X R, Gabarrou, Robert, 1993

23: Eldorado, ED+ WI5 6b A3+, Babanov, 1999

24: Directe de l’Amitié, ED+ WI5 6b M5 A3 R, Audoubert, Feuillarade, Galy, Seigneur, 1974

25: No Siesta, ED+ WI6 M8 X R, Glejdura, Porvaznik, 1986

26: Bonatti-Vaucher, ED WI5+ M6+ R, Bonatti, Vaucher, 1964

27: No Bonatt, ED WI5+ M6+ X R, Désécures, Sourzac, 2011

28: Variante Krasnojarski, ED+ WI5+ A4 R, Khvostenko, Litvinov, Pugovkin, Tsygankov, 2006

29: Manitua, ED+ 7a A3, Sveticic, 1991

30: Le Nez, ED+ 7c, Bole, 2005

31: Éperon Croz, ED- WI3+ 5c R, Meiers, Peters, 1935

32: Voie des Slovènes, ED- WI5 M5 R, Knez, Matijevec, Vidmar, Zupan, 1977

33: A Leï, ED- WI5+ 6b M5 A3, Batoux, Gabarrou, Robert, 2003

34: La Belle Hélène, ED- WI5 M5 X, Parkin, 1976

35: Combinaison Polonaise, ED- WI5 M5+ X, Benoist, Glairon-Rappaz, 2007

36: Michto, ED- WI5+ M5 A2, Aubert, Lafaille, 1997

37: Voie des Yougoslaves, TD+ WI4 6a A2, Gradisar, Herzog, 1976

38: Heidi, ED WI4 5b M5+ A3, Batoux, Dumarest, Gabarrou, 2005

39: Directe à la Pointe Marguerite, ED- WI4 6b A2, Appertet, Gabarrou, 1992

40: Éperon Marguerite, ED- WI4+ 5c M5+ X, Couzy, Desmaison, 1958

41: Rêve Éphémère d’Alpiniste, TD+ WI4+ M5+ X, Knez, Skok, 1980

42: Éperon NNW de la Pointe Young, TD 5c, Cavalleri, Mallano, 1958

43: Cristal Palace, TD- WI3+ M3 X, Ghirardini, 1991

44: Face NE de la Calotte de Rochefort, D 5c

45: Les Révoltés des Périades, D+ WI4, Damilano, Goupil, 1995

46: Canicule ?, D+ WI4, Guérin, Lavalade, Inial, Perroux, 1995

47: Voie Heckmair-Kröner, D, Heckmair, Kröner, 1931

48: Traces de Zouzou, D+ WI2, Asselin, Gabarrou, Long, Silvy, 1984

49: Face N Directe, D- WI3 4c, Gabarrou, Girault, 1992

50: Voie Normale de l’Aiguille de Rochefort, AD

51: Couloir Eccles, AD, Eccles, Payot, Payot, 1873

52: Voie Deudon-Ichac, AD+, Deudon, Ichac, 1931

53: Les Malheurs d’Alfred, D- WI3, Damilano, Greffier, Perroux, 1995

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