Aug 3 {Thurs.} Fri. [3 August 1900] Off at 5 French time. The Dru the Grépon and the Géant all clear. Very exciting walking up the Mer de Glace and seeing all the famous things, Requin, Verte, Jardin, Glacier Talefor and so on. Up the glacier, then a long broken sérac on the top of which we put on the rope. A snowy good glacier, then a long pacte de neige, from which the Aiguille du Géant showed finely, then the Col at 12.15 and down to the Refugio Torina. A nice Frenchman and a girl, I think Italian, whom I passed on the road are sleeping here also. Italian side very steep and fine. Mont Blanc standing up to the right and Courmayeur below. Lunched, slept on the rocks, mended my skirt and looked at the Dauphiné peaks with the others' guide, Demaquille's uncle - Alphonse is all the name I know. Cold wind but very fine.