The Bellevue cable car first opened in 1936, built by Charles Viard who brought the first cablecar to France. It climbs over ...

Chamonix - Zermatt, from France to Switzerland across one of the most fascinating Haute Route ski mountaineering traverses in the Alps ... And of course you need maps, a compass even if GPS seems to ...

open image in gallery Les Houches is one of the main ski areas in Chamonix (Gaëtan Haugeard) Aside from its setting, Chamonix’s other huge draw is that it’s incredibly well-connected.

Five, better still six days of regal ski mountaineering trace a line which crosses different 1:25000 maps from Chamonix all the way to Zermatt. The name itself, Haute Route, is enough and all ski ...

Few ski resorts are as evocative as Chamonix-Mont-Blanc. Set in the sawtooth-sided valley beneath the north face of Europe’s highest peak, the town has a strong claim to be the birthplace not ...