While Chamonix is best known for its endless steep skiing, there’s plenty to go around for everyone here.

And of course you need maps ... or bus to Chamonix early the next morning. Reach Argentiere by bus and take the Grands Montets (3297m) cable car. From the top station ski down to the Argentiere ...

Five, better still six days of regal ski mountaineering trace a line which crosses different 1:25000 maps from Chamonix all the way to Zermatt ... The Col des Ecandies slopes, the Lac de Dix and Pas ...