All Brits should go do the Vallee Blanche, for sure. Why? Cos it keeps you off the rest of the mountain so people who can actually ski and board properly get to enjoy it.

Otherwise, all you monkeys do is get in people's ways, cut up the powder when it would give so many more people some fresh trax, and generally wipe the snow off faces with your side-slipping! Or at worst, you end up costing my guiding money, cos we've had to abandon in order to come and rope or pull you out of something you're not up to. ...but all mates again in the bar :)

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Climb up to the Argentiere cable-car viewing platform (top station), go to the other end of it and hop over the metal hand-rail onto a rocky knife-edge. There is a permanent but small metal rope attached to the face. If there's enough snow, you can ski down the north-face to your left, in full view of the approaching cable-car. If there's not enough snow, it'll be a rock-field so carry on round the knife-edge / metal-rope until you reach a narrow but rapidly widening east-face. Skis on at the top (you'll need to stick them into the slope at 45' and step into them a la Scott Schmidt technique), a couple of jump turns and a face of powder often relatively un-tracked opens up, joining the usual itinerary further down.

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From the top of Brevant cable-car, cut under the rope to the left at the permanent view-finder map. Make sure you have a guide, an avi transceiver and and especially a harness, as you'll use it in anger for this one. A few nice fresh tracks over a few small snow fields, over a lip and you suddenly arrive at the top of the Couloir de l'ENSA. Not at all menacing. Using the permanent rope anchor, you can abseil or lower down about 20 metres, just over a rocky lip (or if there's plenty of snow you can ski down to it and negotiate it on skis). Then this couloir provides a relatively gentle (mostly 35') elevator drop down into the top of Le Brevant. The couloir is one of three in that spot, but usually catches snowfall and even waist-deep powder when other areas can be bare. But be sensible about avalanche risk!

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