In the run-up to the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, on 23 June the Olympic Torch Relay completed a breathtaking tour of Aiguille du Midi. Precisely 100 years after the first Olympic Winter Games took place ...

The Aiguille du Midi, France’s highest cable car and the biggest tourist attraction in the Haute Savoie departement, is due to reopen next weekend as part of the country’s gradual easing of ...

My small-group tour across the Alps with Collette gets off to a sensational start in France. No easing into things. Instead, straight onto the world’s highest vertical ascent by cable car. The ...

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There’s a reason some of the gutsiest steep skiers in the world call Chamonix, France, home. In the center of town stands the bottom terminal of the Aiguille du Midi cable car. The engineering marvel ...

The Aiguille du Midi and Mont Blanc Massif during the sunset, in Chamonix, France (Photo by MARCO BERTORELLO / AFP) Two mountaineers -- one French and the other Dutch -- died in a rockslide while ...