Sitting just north of Mont Blanc, Chamonix, also known as Chamonix Mont Blanc, is a commune in southeastern France's Auvergne Rhone Alpes region. In the company of the most famous mountain in the ...
CHAMONIX, France — Monday, our fifth and final day in the Alps, dawned crystal clear. This was what we had waited for, through a gray weekend, after turning back two days earlier on a rain-slick ...
Imagine yourself and your favorite travel partner dangling in your own private little gondola, gliding silently for 40 minutes as you cross the Mer de Glace, or “sea of ice.” You just left the last ...
Discover the breathtaking beauty of Chamonix Valley and the Aiguilles Rouges mountain range, a stunning alpine paradise in ...
Chamonix has been at the sharp end of Alpine adventure since 1760, when a Genevois scientist offered a prize for the first ...
Buried deep in snow at 2,100 metres (6,889ft) in the ski resort of Chamonix in the French Alps – in the shadow of Mont Blanc – a scurrying sound is coming from above. It’s followed by panting and ...
The world’s glaciers are disappearing. Climate change skeptics are not. The people who study our oceans and skies worry about both of these phenomena. But in wide swaths of 21st century America, the ...
The first Winter Olympics were held nearly one century ago in Chamonix, France, in the French Alps, in January 1924 Known then as "International Sports Week," the very first Winter Olympics were held ...