Climbing on Placche Pre-de Bard, Italy.

With Frankie we drove through the Mont Blanc tunnel again and continued our drive up the Val  Ferret to the road head at Arp Nouva. From there in just under an hour one can walk to some magnificent granite slabs which are known as the Placche Pre-de Bard. There are 4 bolted lines on the compact slab. They are all about 8 to 9 pitches long of varying difficulty but none of them are over technical and it really is a super location to introduce people to multi-pitch climbing and the skills required to abseil efficiently down once you've climbed to the top. It's an exciting location in the Aiguilles Rouges de Triolet, with abundant alpine wild flowers and the melt waters from the Pre de Bard glacier rushing by.