Sarah Cartier is the caretaker of the Charpoua refuge on the Charpoua Glacier in Chamonix-Mont-Blanc. Photo: AFP
Those last few metres in the snow are the toughest. But when you finally look up at the refuge, there is your hostess, Sarah Cartier, welcoming you with a smile – and a polite request to keep the noise down as the baby is sleeping.
Perched 2,841m up in the French Alps, the Charpoua shelter has been welcoming climbers for 115 years now. (And since Mont Blanc itself is 4,810m high, it’s a little over half-way up.)
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