Jake & Miles' European Excursion

A mission to Italy

by Jake - 19 August 2024

Today’s mission, if you choose to accept it, is to get lunch in Italy

The crew

Name      Nickname      Special Skill
Jake   Joe   Climbing
Miles   Banana   Running
Stu   Stew   Geocaching
Sonia   Sony   Relaxing

The equipment

  • Warm clothes
  • Ice axe
  • Crampons
  • Mittens
  • Chalk (for climbing)

The plan

First we go up the bumpy cable car to Plan d’Aiguille. We’ll go up the not so smooth cable car to Aiguille du Midi after that we go on the cable car (that was probaly the best) all the way across to Mount Helbronmer. We’ll descend down to the Sky way halfway point then down to Italy (Entrèves). At Entrèves we’ll search for a place to have lunch, then go safely home. READY THREE, TWO, ONE GO!

Mission report

Here we are, the bottom of the long squishy cable car up to Plan d’Aiguille hope were not gonna be stuck in it (dun dun daaaan!)

Italy mission team in front of the bottom station to Aiguille du Midi

The crew assembles

We got locked in infinite void (approximately 1,000 m). This was not meant to happen (or was it?). We have gotten delayed 😱 What’s gonna happen next keep on reading to find out.

The crew suspended 1,000m in the air

We like hanging out in glass boxes

We are free and now in Italy but still not out of the cable car also it stinks and I don’t know why… Anyway at least there’s a beautiful view of this mountian.

Alpine views

A mountain

Finally a gig, I still haven’t been notified how much they’re paying me though. But it was so good it was my first time playing on a grand piano

My first public recital in Italy

This is the reason why we needed chalk, for rock climbing. We definitely conquered that rock although how do we get down…

Jake and Miles conquer a rock

I told you we needed to bring chalk

Again we are distracted 😱 these grasshopers were tight competition in piggy back but who would win Joe or Jeremy.

Two grashoppers playing piggy back

The crew have officially gotten distracted

How we got to Italy

When we got off at the halfway point we started chillin’ but then we realised we had chilled enough and with Stew’s special skill we set out on a hunt for a dreaded, thing a geocache 😱. It was a long and treacherous journey but eventually the clue made sense - at the bottom of a mountain under a rock (spoiler alert it was a mountain diagram).

Back on track we went down the cable car and set off to find a restaurant for lunch. After walking in a circle we found a restaurant. It was a nice restaurant it had a cuckoo clock and everthing. I ordered a margherita pizza, Banana ordered some spaghetti with sauce, Stew and Sony shared a meal of polenta, and caprese salad. On the way back we went back over to Aiguille du Midi down to Plan d’Aiguille and back down to Chamonix.