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Rock climbing around Chamonix

Chamonix is famous for Mont Blanc and mountaineering involving peaks over 4,000m high. This type of mountaineering often involves mixed climbing and/or moving over glaciers. It usually takes more than a day to complete these routes meaning on overnight stay in a hut or bivving, which means carrying a lot of kit.

However there are many pure rock routes in the Chamonix valley (particularly on the Aiguilles Rouges side) that can be completed in a single day and even many sports routes. Running from Le Fayet all the way to Switzerland are a series of valley crags offering good sports climbing. These are free of snow from May onwards and give a good mixture of single and multi-pitch sports routes across a good range of grades. The type of rock is a mixture between granular gneiss and granite. These crags are at various altitudes from a few hundred metres to over 2000m giving plenty of choice depending on how hot it is.

There is a guidebook covering all the sports routes in the Chamonix valley called "Crag Climbs in Chamonix" and covers 27 separate crags in this area. Buy this guidebook from our shop.

 
Rock climbing guidebook for crag climbing in the Chamonix valley

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