5 Tips for Mont Blanc | What I Wish I’d known

[@DavidPMcEntee]

Thanks for watching guys! I hope you find this video useful for your own Mont Blanc climb & Adventures! I wanted to make a guide thats valuable to the average person who wants to give Mont Blanc a shot and I think it does exactly that! Let me know if you want to see another follow up installment! I thought maybe my first 'KZbin Short' could be a rapid run down of all the kit I brought on this trip!? What else do you want to see, let me know! 👍👍 Thanks again for watching, new hiking video out next week! Cheers! Dave xx

[@mnsmbh]

Great video and thanks for sharing your tips. As a keen hiker, I attempted MB last year with guides and summited Gran Paradiso (4060m). I would add that after fitness, the single most important success factor is comfortable boots that can take a crampon. Don't let the guide company or anyone persuade you that a B3 boot (e.g. Nepal Extreme) is obligatory when there are plenty of lighter B2 boots which are perfect for the job (e.g. La Sportiva Karakoram HTC) .

[@davidcasillas285]

David, I loved this Video! I'm an American former Mountain Runner & Racer. Very informative video and well done. I finished 2nd in the Chamonix 1/2 Marathon 1980. Much easier getting up than coming down. It's treacherous. I have scars to prove it. Again, thanks so much. The Chamonix Race Director was a Mountain Guide as was his Son. One of the World's most scenic Villages. My first race up Mount Blanc was in Blizzard in 1980. 😅

[@J99WKS]

I’d been looking at a trip with Adventure Base for a while, in particular this Mont Blanc trip but always said “one day”…. You’ve now convinced me that this is the trip for me! Nice one David 👍🏻

[@leveauproductions3262]

Love the energy and pointers! Well done video mate! Cheers

[@PinayAdventures]

Thanks for responding to my questions David!

[@chriswhite9447]

Great video. Your main MB video has given me the motivation to book, I’m attempting it next year!

[@SanaurRehmanShahmir]

Even though I am thousands of miles away. It might be that I never will visit Mont Blanc in my life, but it is a brilliant sharing. Keep the Great Work Up! Lot love and great respect from a solo mountain hiker friend from the Lower Chitral District of Pakistan.

[@themoderngent8420]

well done mate, great vid. Love the shots, absolutely stunning!

[@DavidPMcEntee]

Thanks Dim!!!🥳🥳🥳

[@dooksterful]

Attempting in next few weeks with Mont Blanc Guides!! Thanks for the tips. Really look forward to it.

[@PleaseHold-il5eq]

Hope the trip went well and safe! How was it?

[@johanbergstrom2109]

Thanks!! The bowling alley - Grand colouir: I climbed the MB in 2008 and our guide made sure we got over the grand colouir (GC) as early as possible in the morning. Before the sun has started to stir up snow and ice higher up (rocks don't loosen as easily). On the way up it is a little easier to plan the transition over GC, especially if you take a night at Tete Rousse, and on the way down one night at Gouther with an early start the next day to make it over while the mountain is cold. I climbed the last week of June.

[@annechome]

OMG, this guy is adorable! He's got great advice here, but make sure to watch his video of the actual climb. Looking forward to seeing his upcoming adventures!

[@DavidPMcEntee]

Thanks for the kind words and support 😁💙

[@frankfrentzen8691]

we made Mont Blanc from the Italien side via Peuterey-ridge. From Italy it is not so overcrowded as on the french "normal-route" via Bosses ridge. But I can agree to all of your friendly tipps and remarks. Mont-Blanc is an adventure and you have to be fit for 100% and it will be a very hard trip. Thanks for your very interesting collection of information !!

[@flipper971]

Beautiful shots and great tips David! Saw the whole film, what and experience that must’ve been.

[@jeffmiller877]

Loved the video! Great tips too!

[@DavidPMcEntee]

Thanks mate!!! 🥳🥳

[@MissJayana]

Wonderful, thanks so much, very useful!

[@SeanReillyEsq]

Loving the content David. Think you might like the Tour Du Mont Blanc it's a 110 mile circuit of Mont Blanc. Happy to loan you the guidebook if you want.

[@DavidPMcEntee]

Thanks Sam!! It’s deffo on my list mate 🥳🥳

[@AshleyGDean]

My tips for Mont Blanc: 1. Take a the cable car up to the Aiguille du Midi 2. Have a brew. 3. Relax 🤣 Looks incredible though David, will check out your other video about it now 👍

[@DavidPMcEntee]

Thanks Ashley mate this made me chuckle 😂❤️ Yes deffo give it a look pal I’m sure you’ll enjoy it 👊

[@NorwayHikesTrails]

Thank you for sharing 👍

[@DavidPMcEntee]

Cheers for watching!!!

[@northernjimbo]

Some good tips in there 👍 re - the water, it’s not so much that they’ve cornered the market, but that everything gets flown up by helicopter, AND DOWN as well. So yes it’s expensive but you get to sleep in a warm hut in the most amazing location in the world……. You can get a discount on hut prices with a BMC reciprocal rights card too 😉

[@alistairmusgrove6094]

I'm interested to know what sort of training you did to prepare, and a bit more about the kit, how many players what type etc.?

[@Crackity_Jones.]

Great advice

[@fitforyourlife8603]

Great advice unfortunatley I had to change companies and go 2 months earlier than planned. The company (Kandoo Adventures) were not very good. I like your comment on sleep and the fact that the guides dont stop! Great advice on the pockets - I took bladder hydration so I could drink on the go - but was unable to do that we went so fast and hands full with poles! (also it freezes - which I knew would happen). However our guides din't want us to carry that much water - hence we had to buy it at huts in the evening - I was very dehydrated.

[@adrianbaker3120]

Very nicely done,

[@theoldlegion]

Epic video thank you!

[@NorwayHikesTrails]

Nice tips and video 👍

[@DavidPMcEntee]

Thanks pal :)

[@CawKee]

Thanks for info 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@DavidPMcEntee]

No problem 👍

[@fabiovolpe7630]

Hi! Thank you for share your experience. Yes.. about the rocks it's true. I heard about this. Each year the Montain is more hot (mainly during July and Aug). So if you can... try to go early season. This way you can avoid (a little) this warm weather expected for End of July and August. One super quick question. It is possible to get 'internet" or cellphone line during the summit days? Like... I can send for someone like news? Or this is impossible? How was this communication for you during these days? Thanks :)

[@athermedia91]

What kit did you take up to the hut with you? And did you summit to the huts in b3 boots. I'm off there in july. Very excited

[@DavidPMcEntee]

I’ll make a video on this one day!👊 yes b3 boots all the way up!👊

[@athermedia91]

@@DavidPMcEntee thanks for the insight. Pretty much geared up so far!

[@GStupnitsky]

Thx

[@kwaiyeecheng4733]

hey Dave! just a quick question for you if that's ok. you mentioned about bring bottles of water. do you think water bladder is suitable to use in this climb? :) thanks

[@DavidPMcEntee]

For sure!! 😁😁

[@kwaiyeecheng4733]

@@DavidPMcEntee thank you! And I’m wondering did you rent a pair of B3 boots or you have your own ones? ((Sorry for all the questions !!🤪))

[@SomeKidsAtHomes]

If someone's reading this or if you haven't yet made the climb, do not take a water bladder! The tubes will freeze and you will cause problems for the team

[@LinusWilson]

Guides are jerks. You convinced me to solo.

[@yardenrosebelhomme8337]

hey David! did you use a guide? or did you booked it throught an agency? if so, what agency :) thank you!

[@DavidPMcEntee]

Through adventurebase.com amigo 😁

[@davidgriffiths7696]

Only cost me 20 euro for whole climb to hire crampons and piolét, borrowed decent sleeping bag and saloupets, and slept in a snow hole on the grand plateau so that cost nothing. Nice walk/ice formations etc. Only go in settled weather lost in the fog is dangerous with cravass and cliffs.

[@vibefrequencyable]

can you rent crampons ice axe etc?

[@DavidPMcEntee]

Yep in Chamonix

[@bennicholas4178]

What about sleeping tablets

[@DavidPMcEntee]

I think they’re some what dangerous at altitude! I try to never take anything really, but worth chatting to the doctor about!

[@edelweiss2971]

Great Video. Thanks for that. But, please, you must do something with your Hair. That "Nudel-ting" Haircut doesn't fit your handsome face.

[@DavidPMcEntee]

Hahahahaha it’s constantly evolving this haircut

[@johnjrp01]

"Stuff I wish I'd known" not "Stuff I wish I knew", because you wanted to know it in the past, not now.

[@DavidPMcEntee]

Thank you John! 👊

[@420BLUNTLEY]

Is there a way to camp at the huts instead? Like do you HAVE to sleep in the bunks.

[@DavidPMcEntee]

Possibly!! But especially near the top of Mont Blanc your in snow drifts! So it would be pretty darn cold 🤯