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 ...
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 ultimate tick list line is in Chamonix. Rising from the center of downtown Chamonix, France, the Téléphérique de l’Aiguille du Midi cable car climbs more than 9,000 vertical feet to the summit of ...
L’Aiguille du midi est particulièrement dangereuse ces derniers jours. Un skieur est décédé jeudi matin en descendant la face nord de l’Aiguille du Midi, dans le massif du Mont-Blanc (Haute-Savoie), ...
Prior to 2018, 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 ...
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