5 Tips for Mont Blanc | What I Wish I’d known

Here are five things I wish I knew about before I climbed Mont Blanc. These five tips will raise your awareness and really help you have the best possible experience while climbing Mont Blanc. Feel free to drop any questions you have about the climb bellow and I'll put together another follow up video very soon too!

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Published on the 09 / 03 / 2022 at 6:30pm - with (Forgot to record) Subscribers.

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[DavidPMcEntee]

Thanks for watching guys! I hope you find this video useful for your own Mont Blanc climb & Adventures! I wanted to make a guide thats valuable to the average person who wants to give Mont Blanc a shot and I think it does exactly that! Let me know if you want to see another follow up installment! I thought maybe my first 'YouTube Short' could be a rapid run down of all the kit I brought on this trip!? What else do you want to see, let me know! 👍👍

Thanks again for watching, new hiking video out next week! Cheers! Dave xx

[davidcasillas]

David, I loved this Video! I'm an American former Mountain Runner & Racer. Very informative video and well done. I finished 2nd in the Chamonix 1/2 Marathon 1980. Much easier getting up than coming down. It's treacherous. I have scars to prove it. Again, thanks so much. The Chamonix Race Director was a Mountain Guide as was his Son. One of the World's most scenic Villages. My first race up Mount Blanc was in Blizzard in 1980. 😅

[mnsmbh]

Great video and thanks for sharing your tips. As a keen hiker, I attempted MB last year with guides and summited Gran Paradiso (4060m). I would add that after fitness, the single most important success factor is comfortable boots that can take a crampon. Don't let the guide company or anyone persuade you that a B3 boot (e.g. Nepal Extreme) is obligatory when there are plenty of lighter B2 boots which are perfect for the job (e.g. La Sportiva Karakoram HTC) .

[johanbergstrom]

Thanks!!
The bowling alley - Grand colouir: I climbed the MB in 2008 and our guide made sure we got over the grand colouir (GC) as early as possible in the morning. Before the sun has started to stir up snow and ice higher up (rocks don't loosen as easily). On the way up it is a little easier to plan the transition over GC, especially if you take a night at Tete Rousse, and on the way down one night at Gouther with an early start the next day to make it over while the mountain is cold. I climbed the last week of June.

[leveauproductions]

Love the energy and pointers! Well done video mate! Cheers

[PinayAdventures]

Thanks for responding to my questions David!

[JWKS]

I’d been looking at a trip with Adventure Base for a while, in particular this Mont Blanc trip but always said “one day”…. You’ve now convinced me that this is the trip for me! Nice one David 👍🏻

[frankfrentzen]

we made Mont Blanc from the Italien side via Peuterey-ridge. From Italy it is not so overcrowded as on the french "normal-route" via Bosses ridge. But I can agree to all of your friendly tipps and remarks. Mont-Blanc is an adventure and you have to be fit for 100% and it will be a very hard trip. Thanks for your very interesting collection of information !!

[chriswhite]

Great video. Your main MB video has given me the motivation to book, I’m attempting it next year!

[themoderngent]

well done mate, great vid. Love the shots, absolutely stunning!

[annechome]

OMG, this guy is adorable! He's got great advice here, but make sure to watch his video of the actual climb. Looking forward to seeing his upcoming adventures!

[SanaurRehmanShahmir]

Even though I am thousands of miles away. It might be that I never will visit Mont Blanc in my life, but it is a brilliant sharing. Keep the Great Work Up! Lot love and great respect from a solo mountain hiker friend from the Lower Chitral District of Pakistan.

[dooksterful]

Attempting in next few weeks with Mont Blanc Guides!! Thanks for the tips. Really look forward to it.

[flipper]

Beautiful shots and great tips David! Saw the whole film, what and experience that must’ve been.

[MissJayana]

Wonderful, thanks so much, very useful!

[alistairmusgrove]

I'm interested to know what sort of training you did to prepare, and a bit more about the kit, how many players what type etc.?

[northernjimbo]

Some good tips in there 👍 re - the water, it’s not so much that they’ve cornered the market, but that everything gets flown up by helicopter, AND DOWN as well. So yes it’s expensive but you get to sleep in a warm hut in the most amazing location in the world……. You can get a discount on hut prices with a BMC reciprocal rights card too 😉

[SeanReillyEsq]

Loving the content David.
Think you might like the Tour Du Mont Blanc it's a 110 mile circuit of Mont Blanc. Happy to loan you the guidebook if you want.

[AshleyGDean]

My tips for Mont Blanc:

1. Take a the cable car up to the Aiguille du Midi
2. Have a brew.
3. Relax 🤣

Looks incredible though David, will check out your other video about it now 👍

[fitforyourlife]

Great advice unfortunatley I had to change companies and go 2 months earlier than planned. The company (Kandoo Adventures) were not very good. I like your comment on sleep and the fact that the guides dont stop! Great advice on the pockets - I took bladder hydration so I could drink on the go - but was unable to do that we went so fast and hands full with poles! (also it freezes - which I knew would happen). However our guides din't want us to carry that much water - hence we had to buy it at huts in the evening - I was very dehydrated.