Just filling in, with my first posting from 2005, I think, after a day of 'Zooming' and technical problems with a monitor that took a while to diagnose.
Here, David is snapping Gaynor as she appears from what appears to be 'nowhere', showing that the weather in the Alps isn't always perfect, this being somewhere on the walkers' route between Chamonix and Zermatt.
A fuller report may appear in due course...
Meanwhile...
By complete coincidence, I discovered that Barbara S, fellow TGO Challenge vetter, put a picture of the same bridge, in clearer weather, on Facebook on 23 April. I hope she doesn't mind me replicating that picture here:
Whilst amongst our party, Betty is recorded as being fazed by this bridge, my own recollection is that it was ok, but further along our route from above Zermatt to St Niklaus (we were going the opposite way to Barbara) there were some partially collapsed tunnels under the scree that caused a few rips to clothing, and a very annoyed leader (me) when some of the party thought it would be better to avoid the tunnels and attempt to go over the scree from which the tunnels were protecting them!
There was much shouting before they eventually obeyed instructions!
[We went from Zermatt to Grimenz in 2005, then in 2006 we went from Chamonix to Grimenz, meeting a number of TGO Challenge stalwarts, including Sue O and Skippy, along the way.]
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