Here is Natalia with Christophe on the summit of Gran Paradiso last week, on their acclimatisation ascent in preparation for Mont Blanc this week. It was funny to see that Christophe had dressed in clothing matching the Russian Federation flag! We hope that the wind speeds that thwarted last weeks teams on Mont Blanc reduce, and the forecast looks very promising, so fingers crossed for all our teams. We have a few final spaces on each of our remaining Alpine Introduction courses this summer, with the next course running 12-18 August 2012.