Aiguille du Midi, couloir des Cosmiques

Massif : Mont Blanc
Départ : Chamonix (Aiguille du Midi) (3842 m)

Topo associé : Aiguille du Midi, couloir des Cosmiques

Sommet associé : Aiguille du Midi (3842 m)

Orientation : W

Dénivelé : 100 m.
Ski : 5.1

A lot of sun on the snow. Perhaps -10 degrees at the top. Lots of wind until the first rappel.
Conditions d'accès/altitude du parking : na

Altitude de chaussage/déchaussage : na
Conditions pour le ski : 
Perhaps 1 day too late. The powder had been scraped off by those who slide down the couloir, so the top half was icy, the 2nd half had nice(ish) snow, some pockets of powder, but quite a lot of patches of transformed snow. The variability made it hard to ski well and consistently.

The exit towards the midi lift was good, no crevasse risk. We could have either skinned up to the middle midi lift, but we skiied down to the tunnel. It was great powder. Then we walked the 2nd half

Conditions nivo et activité avalancheuse : 

Very low. Didnt see any avalanches or debris.

Took lift to the midi, skiied over to the couloir as far as we could and then walked to the top. Took the 3 rappels of 30m. These rappels are more like 33m so bring a dynamic rope or a 40m rappel...
Horaires : 

Lift @ 9:30. Back at the mb tunnel at 15:30h