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.

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 ...

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 ...