321: Chamonix Stories #6 | Sam Haddad: “I looked down and there was just the abyss"

In the sixth of our ‘Chamonix Stories’, we find out what it’s like to fall into a crevasse on the Vallée Blanche (don’t worry, this story has a happy ending!)

Host Iain Martin speaks with freelance journalist Sam Haddad, about her first descent of the famous off-piste route – the Vallée Blanche.

SHOW NOTES

Listen to our special episode about Chamonix (0:30)
Sam Haddad runs the Substack ‘Climate and Board Sports’
Sam was last on the podcast in Episode 251 (1:00)
She spent a season in Chamonix in 2000 (2:00)
She was on the Envers du Plan route (2:15)
Jamie and the Magic Torch (3:15)
Falling in to the crevasse (4:45)
Being found in the crevasse (6:00)
Being lifted out (6:30)
Having to keep snowboarding (7:30)
Getting a helicopter back to resort (9:00)
Doing the Vallée Blanche again (9:45)

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