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Hazel outside 'Kili" - our tent for the fortnight - at Camping Les Marmottes
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Evening light and cloud on Glacier Les Bossons, from Camping Les Marmottes
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Les Bossons - a cloudy and damp start to our first day on the TMB
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The Tour Team head towards the Téléphérique de la Flégère
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Téléphérique de la Flégère information boards, Les Praz
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Looking up at the Téléphérique de la Flégère from the station as Les Praz
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The view down from the not too terrifying Téléphérique de la Flégère
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Les Praz and the valley of Chamonix-Mont Blanc has disappeared into the cloud
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Téléphérique de la Flégère (1,894 m)
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Me, at the La Flégère signpost
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Forlorn deckchairs at La Flégère
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Information board for the Aiguilles Rouges National Nature Reserve
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Blue - with a tint of purple - a spiky, stretched cluster of tubular flowers
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Alpine Rose, Rhododendron ferrugineum
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Alpine Rose, Rhododendron ferrugineum
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Tiny pink/lilac flowers
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Clustered purple flower head, with green tip
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Our path, and fellow walkers, disappearing into the cloud
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Large yellow daisy like flower
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Information board cum cairn for the Aiguilles Rouges National Nature Reserve
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Palest blue Bellflower, with equally delicate raindrops
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Clover - Trifolium - no idea which type has this beautiful magenta-to-pale purple flower
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Raindrops cling to a grass seed head,
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Bladder Campion and clusters of raindrops
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Raindrops adorn a Pulsatilla alpina or Alpine Pasqueflower, with its tentacle-like seed head / fruit
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Blue Bellflower with raindrops
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A glimpse of the Mer de Glace
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Looking north along the Chamonix - Mont Blanc valley
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Glacier - not sure which one.... the path/directions look all wrong, but maybe it's the Glacier du Tour
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Glacier d'Argentière
