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

I’d never been to Chamonix before and had no idea what to expect. I knew it was a ski-resort town and home of the famous Mont Blanc, but what could I do there over the summer season when the snow had ...

But then again, Chamonix is a real town that functions year-round. Its location – at the foot of Europe’s mightiest peak straddling France, Switzerland and Italy – makes it a melting pot of ...

Overall, this is one of the simpler 4,000m peaks, requiring very good fitness combined with basic ropework and glacier skills. On cloudy days navigation can be very complex. Stuart Macdonald has been ...

Today around 3 million people visit Chamonix every year. Despite the numbers, the valley still maintains something of the wild edge that drew in those early adventurers. Among serious skiers ...

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 ...