7/6/14 - Le Lepido Pteres (sort of)

We planned to attempt a route called Le Lepido Pteres.  I met Bucky and Walter at the base of the climb since they ran from Chamonix to the Plan de l’Aguille station.  As the wait for them became longer and longer I started thinking about walking back down, but I spied them making their way up to me eventually.  Apparently after passing the Plan station and starting the ~1hr hike up from there Walter’s legs began shaking.  So they stopped and went to the café and got water and sandwiches.  By the time they got to the base of the climb it looked like weather was going to start rolling in so we bailed and rode back down to Cham.  About an hour later the clouds rolled in very thick and the rain started to fall so we were quite fortunate to have turned away from the climb.