After spending the night at Lamarck Col, during a snowstorm with our tent shaking like crazy with the wind, we got up in the morning ready to bail out and give up on our attempt... Snow had accumulated about a foot around our tent and our packs were completely buried outside the tent. Our sleeping bags were covered with snow that was blown inside the tent... But when we got out of the tent, the weather had improved and in spite of low clouds far away looked pretty good. So we decided to go for Mount Darwin. We dropped into Darwin Canyon about 1200' and skinned up to the base of the north face. The windblown snow was hard to skin up as the slope steepened to about 35 degrees, so we started booting up. The angle gradually increased to about 45 degrees in the middle of the couloir and remained constant to the top. The broad face narrows down to a little snow finger about two ski lengths wide for the last 200'. Eric made it to the summit plateau while I stopped at the bottom of the snow finger. The descent was incredible, we were skiing with a wave of powder going down with us, it was awesome! However, at the bottom of the canyon, we had to go back up to Lamarck Col and we suffered a lot going back up after a lot of efforts between 12 and 14000'... We finally arrived to the tent, had lunch and packed out to head down. Eric and I will long remember skiing this 45 degree couloir with a foot and a half of powder...

        Leaving the tent to drop into Darwin Canyon 

        Booting up the North Face of Mount Darwin 

        Climbing up into the snow finger at the very top 

        Taking awesome turns in the couloir 

      Me, happy to have enjoyed such good snow in such a fine setting 

A small videito...Excuse the sound track, this is not a porno movie, we are just breading hard because of the altitude...
Also excuse the poor quality of the image.