AFP通信さんのインスタグラム写真 - (AFP通信Instagram)「AFP Photo 📷 @mber12 - Charpoua shelter: soup and cake half-way up Mont Blanc - . Those last few meters in the snow are the toughest. . But when you finally look up to the refuge, there is your hostess, Sarah Cartier, welcoming you with a smile - and a polite request to keep the noise down as the baby is sleeping. . Perched 2,841 meters (9,320 feet) up in the French Alps, the Charpoua shelter has been welcoming climbers for 115 years now. (And since Mont Blanc itself is 4,810 meters high, it's a little over half way up.) . There is no running water, no electricity and a little bit of climbing. But the view of the doorway will take your breath away - if the altitude has not already done that for you. Sarah's job is to look after the climbers who book the shelter and make sure they arrive on schedule - because if they do not, she has to raise the alarm with the emergency services. The Charpoua refuge - "more of a hut than a hut" as one website puts it - is named after the glacier right next to it. At a pinch it will sleep 12 hardy climbers. This is 30-year-old Sarah's fifth season here, working from the end of June to the end of August. . And rather than working in a big refuge, the idea of working up here, all alone, is what appeals to her. She gets her water from the glacier. She bakes her own bread and cookies with local, organic produce. Her supplies arrives by helicopter at the beginning of the season and her partner arrives every Friday.」7月3日 5時53分