Aiguille Du Midi Bashny.Net

Climb the mountains nearly 4 kilometers to one of Europe's most beautiful peaks.
To see all the incredible majesty of the snow-covered Alps and Mont Blanc.
Feel dizzy completely different than we are accustomed to the pressure on the ground, and substitute face to the alpine biting wind.
At this point, I want to say - go and try everything.
It really is an incredibly beautiful place, it does not leave indifferent absolutely anyone.

The top of the Aiguille du Midi is probably the second most famous after the apex of Mont Blanc in the French Alps. Every day here is raised more than 2 million visitors - ordinary tourists, mountaineers, snowboarders, and other outdoor enthusiasts.
Its name derives from the top of the fact that if you look at it in the afternoon from Chamonix, the sun is directly over the peak.

You can reach the top by cable car, which was built in 1955. By the way, this lift Chamonix-Aiguille du Midi is the highest in Europe, raising the visitor more than 2, 5 kilometers up, and until 1975 it was the highest in the world. However, a height difference between the lower and upper station, it still holds the first place in the world.
In the photo - the lower station of the road

Caravan intervene 40 passengers per hour and cableway can climb to the top up to 550 people.
The cost of a ticket on a "round-trip" - 50 euros.
At an altitude of 2317 there is an intermediate station of Plan de l'Aiguille, offering beautiful views of the Chamonix Valley and can be reached climbing routes on the Aiguille du Midi. By the way, with a plateau around the station takes off a lot of paragliders.

Often, rising to the top of the station, you can get into the thick heavy clouds that cling to the alpine peaks. I must say that this show is very impressive, especially if you just go up at noon, when the sun hanging just above the apex.

Nearing the peak, which is an observation deck and a cafe.

And he that moment that I said a little above, the peak of a cloud snagged and stall dives into a thick fog seemed to Mordor. The sun, barely making the way through a cloud, forming a beautiful halo

The top station at the peak. Side view

In fact, the vertex is composed of several peaks, which are connected by passages and tunnels carved into the rock

On the Aiguille du Midi several viewing platforms, located on different levels. Upper, located at an altitude of 3842 meters, rises above the lowest in more than 70 meters.

Inside the rock a network of tunnels for the transition between the observation decks and to enter the climbing routes

At the highest observation deck need to climb on a free lift. Inside it is a meter in height. For once the elevator takes no more than 10 people, but for some reason on the top want to climb, not all visitors

The sign on the top viewing platform that resembles where you are

Another one of the tunnels. He is to enter the climbing route on Mont Blanc

Cave-out. Since there is always snow, which creates the northern side of the dense snow-ice crust, you will not even notice how the tunnel from the rock moved to the ice.

Tourist and mountains. By the way, during the ascent to the Aiguille du Midi is worth bearing in mind that the temperature difference between the lower and upper station reaches about 20 degrees Celsius, and sometimes more due to high winds at the top.
So, when we were there on June 15 in Chamonix was 23, and Agyul du Midi -5.

Views from the top of the observation deck.
Tops left - Les Drus (3754), Aiguille Verte (4122), Les Droites (4000), Les Courtes (3856), Grand Combin (4317), Mont Rose (4638)