The weather at the pick up was not great . In fact it was snowing quite hard. It was touch and go as to whether we would fly, yet the helicopter slalomed through the holes in the cloud and found us in the lay-by just past the village of Chatelard close to the Franco - Swiss border.
We piled into the helicopter and seven minutes later we were dropped in a different world on the Trient plateau.
The plan was then to ski and then gently skin up to the Col du Tour before skiing down the Le Tour Glacier back into the village of Le Tour.
The issue was there wasn't a great amount of snow at the top of the col which necessitated Phillipe [my fellow Guide] and my self roping the clients down the steep col to where they could refit their skis.
It was then skiing all the way down to the village and reluctantly back into the cloud.
Thanks to Gavin Foster of Ski Weekend.com for being there and making all this happen.
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