Or they take it more leisurely and spend the first night at Refuge d'Argentière. Five, better still six days of regal ski mountaineering trace a line which crosses different 1:25000 maps from Chamonix ...

The Swiss mountain resort of Zermatt has been named “Best Ski Resort” in the Alps for the second time in a row in an extensive online poll of winter sports fans. The Best Ski Resort prize ...

Chamonix - Zermatt, from France ... which must contain spare clothing and ski mountaineering equipment. And other mountaineering gear, such as ice axe, crampons, harness, and rope since often the ...

The country's smallest ski resorts would be crown jewels elsewhere ... Though these are loose guidelines at best—Zermatt's glacier runs year-round, while St. Moritz's 300-plus days of annual ...

The gorgeous little, traffic-free village of Saas-Fee looks a bit like a small Zermatt ... in the resort’s traffic-free centre and within easy reach of the lifts. There’s limited ski-in ...