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Climbing “Maye Oh Niaise (TD+ 6c>6b)” at la Tête de la Maye (2518m) in Haut Vénéon, France 🇫🇷

In the summer of 2022, I will be visiting the Écrins National Park (le massif des Écrins), one of the 10 national parks in France. The Écrins massif is a large mountain range in the French Alps located in the Haute-Alpes and Isère, with glaciers and two peaks over 4,000 meters high.


The plan is to climb mainly multi-pitch in the popular climbing area Aiguille Dibona and other areas in the Écrins massif (le massif des Écrins).


“Maye Oh Niaise (TD+ 6c>6b)” at la Tête de la Maye (2518m)
“Maye Oh Niaise (TD+ 6c>6b)” at la Tête de la Maye (2518m)

After a heavy thunderstorm the previous evening, the morning turned out to be a beautiful and sunny climbing day. We decided to climb Tête de la Maye (2518m), a relatively easy-to-access route in front of our campsite (Camping municipal de la Berarde).


Tête de la Maye (2518m) has about 18 multi-pitch climbs. This time we climbed “Maye Oh Niaise (TD+ 6c>6b)” in the middle of Tête de la Maye (2518m).


“Maye Oh Niaise (TD+ 6c>6b)” at la Tête de la Maye (2518m)
“Maye Oh Niaise (TD+ 6c>6b)” at la Tête de la Maye (2518m)

2 people acting together :

Team : 👱🏻🇮🇹 Andrea & 🐢🇯🇵


9:20 Depart camp site (Camping municipal de la Berarde)

10:00 Start climbing

17:50 Start descent

19:30 Return to campsite (Camping municipal de la Berarde)


Climbing equipment during the ascent of "Maye Oh Niaise

Ropes : double rope 2 x 50 m

16 quickdraws

slings and carabine


 la haute vallée du Vénéon
la haute vallée du Vénéon

The crux is the overhang at (L6, 6c), but if you can climb Martinswand's "l'extrême onction (L2, 6b+)" in South Vosges, it is not much of a problem. The next slab pitch (L8, 6a) is quite more interesting than the overhang of (L6, 6c) 😆



The day after climbing "Maye Oh Niaise" at Tête de la Maye, we only climbed L1 (5c+) & L2 (6a) as we planned to climb Refuge Soreiller at the foot of Aiguille Dibona (3131m).


You can read more about the climbing topo (OISANS NOUVEAU, OISANS SAUVAGE - Livre Ouest) and the campsite (Camping Boulogne) we used 👉🏻 here.

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