With Susan and our son, Tom we ascended from the parking at Les Fermons in heavy rain to a slightly sheltered platform at about 2330m where we spent an uncomfortable night in his very inexpensive and leaky tent. The next day in improving weather we continued to the summit collecting rock samples on the way. Descent involved more sampling and dad being conned into carrying a huge rock back home, plus the soggy tent. Not bad for an eight year old boy!