Chamonix increasingly at the centre of alpinism this June: at the start of the month the small French town at the foot of Mont Blanc will host the first Chamonix Mountain Festival. As is self-evident ...

2004-01-04 04:00:00 PDT Chamonix, France-- Even in the European Alps, where ski lifts as varied as the blades of a Swiss Army knife scale mountain after mountain, the 60-passenger téléphérique to the ...

Chamonix, France — Even in the Alps, where ski lifts as varied as the blades of a Swiss Army knife scale mountain after mountain, the 60-passenger tram to the Aiguille du Midi is mythical. It is the ...

Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. In 1921, the town council of Chamonix, then a quiet French community of 3000 people, decided to change the municipality's name to ...

If there’s one takeaway from all of the coverage leading up to this year’s Ultra Trail du Mont Blanc, widely considered the most difficult footraces in the world—including that right here on Outside ...

The tip of the ice axe refused to release from the wall, no matter how vigorously I tried to yank it out. It was likely my futile wriggling that dislodged the other axe from its anchor point, sending ...

Les Chalets de Philippe was the result of a dream that began in 1987, when Philippe Courtines, a music producer and theatre impresario, left behind his hectic life in Paris and arrived in Chamonix.