I climbed the East Ridge of Matier with 2 stoked clients on sept 4th. And climbed Tzil, Slalok and Matier over 2 days with a fit Brazillian Ultra runner (Aug 30/31st).

Things are icier than normal (dry glaciers almost up to the Joffre-Matier col) but everything I’ve encountered was easily passable. The W ridges of tzil/slalok are snow free, and descending Slalok’s E ridge’s glacier and getting onto the Matier glacier from the E ridge was no problem.

Matier’s normal route is in good shape. And the east ridge and glacier travel to the normal route was also great.

Even though things are about to change it’s hopefully worth knowing the bridges are still good