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Chamonix Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Chamonix, France
Eating our way through France . . .
This is a top pick! France was a gastronomical delight! We started our eating tour in Chamonix, which is in the French Alps in the valley underneath Mt. Blanc, right on the border of Switzerland and Italy. The hiking was fantastic as expected, and seeing the glaciers ...
Chamonix et Mont Blanc
This is a top pick! ... crazy ski chase in James Bond 007 "The World Is Not Enough". It is "the Alpinism capital of the world", and rightfully so. Chamonix is about 1000 metres (remember metres, not feet here) above sea level and many of the peaks in the surrounding Alpes top ...
The Top of Europe
This is a top pick! (C) We had to stop. It's the top of Europe and the longest tunnel, right? Plus, Sara LOVES tunnels - especially when they're 15 kilometers... After getting her in the mood with the story about the butter truck incident when hundreds of ...
The 4000m club
This is a top pick! ... top of a razor thin ridge which dropped off steeply on both sides. On the left side you would pretty much land 2500m below in Chamonix (bit of an exageration, but it was at least 500m and you would definately die) and on the right side it was a steep ...
I hope I'm fit enough for this
This is a top pick! ... ferry was also running late and we got there there in time. The rest of the night was spent driving through France, arriving at Chamonix at 11am the next morning. First impressions? Wow!!!! nestled in a spectacular mountain valley under the shadow of ...
The Big Road Trip
A nice day for a little drive in the country - over 800km in fact from Armentieres to Chamonix. o in the Prius, We had a convoy of 3 vehicles. Nicki and Nico in the Prius, Alan and Carolyn in their rental Citroen C5 and Anne, Travis and me in our trusty ...
Wonderful Scenery and Great Company = Chamonix
... Mont Blanc tunnel as Chamonix is at the turn to the tunnel. The rain bucketed down as we arrived in the mountains and into Chamonix. Looking for a campground was difficult as we had no addresses to go by. It turned out that this weekend was the Mont Blanc ...
Boyz-Time
... out together and strolled around the village chatting and shopping for his lucky lady. We got a great afternoon to walk around Chamonix. Our jackets were unzipped and the sun was out. I've been so traumatized with Canadian winters, so everytime there's ...
Going Up a Mountain
... , and it was nice to be able to breathe easily again. From the base of the cable car it is only a short stroll into Chamonix, so that's what we did. Unfortunately it seemed like the entire population of Europe had the same idea. The narrow streets through ...
Day 14 - Argentiere to Chamonix (Our Last TMB Day)
I can hardly believe that our last day of the Tour De Mont Blanc has arrived. Ten days of trekking through the Alps staying in wonderful little hotels and Refugio,s or Gites. On the whole the accommodation was very comfortable other than the night I ...
Train Ride to l'Aiguille Verte (Day 66)
... centreville. We bought a few fresh vegetables and then walked around the main part of town for a little while. I love Chamonix. The views from every corner of the little town are breathtaking; it is a multi-national (French, Swiss, Italian ...
Chamonix - Mt.Blanc
... lot of baking for us. By now I am enjoying the routine of dinner: appetizer, main course, cheese, desert, and coffee. We left Chamonix early on the 10th so that I could pick up my ticket for Uganda at the Emirates office in Paris before the weekend. ...
The very best of hiking
Thanks Laurent, it was the most beautyfull trail I've ever made. Stunning landscapes, very deep into the wild. From the green vegetation to the snow at the peak, just terrific ! ...
The Tour of de Injured Joints
Walking has become a thing with my family. It started a few years ago in Morocco, when my parents and I walked across the desert for 90 miles with camels. That's the kind of thing that can get you hooked. Two years ago, all five of us ...
Mark - Un homme de la montagne
... way to Paris. After much deliberation, we decided to head to the Alpes for a few days of hiking before catching the Tour de France. Chamonix was our desired location and we are so glad we went there. First, a disclaimer for any of the pictures we ...
the most amazing ski trip of my life
... for my snowboard i start to get really nervous and think its not such a good idea to re learn to snowboard on a mountain in france, but i stick with it. i get my board and figure out my bindings are not the way i want them and the rental place was ...
Chamonix - avalanches, soggy dogs and campervans!
... the risk of avalanches was really high -we could hear loads of controlled avalanches being set off early one morning. We have been to Chamonix once before in the summer when it was almost deserted, but it's great in the winter with all the skiers and ...
Snowboarding
... happy being stuck in a room with 5 girls. We weren't able to go up the mountain on the first day so we checked out chamonix, had a nice lunch (guessing what it was were ordering) and checked out the mer de glace. It is a huge glacier that heads ...
Chamonix
... cleaned up after sleeping in our clothes last night! Ahhh! Our room has a magnificent view of the valley. Chamonix occupies the very narrow valley that exists between two huge snow-capped mountain ranges including Mont Blanc on one side ...
Tour du Mont Blanc
... to do the famous walking trail Tour du Mont Blanc (TMB), which is a circumnaviagation of the Mont Blanc range, crossing from France to Switzerland to Italy before returning to France again. We decided on a 12 day group trip that we organised ...
Chamonix
... superbe, j'ai mange une bonne fondue suisse, jai ete voir du theatre....j'ai rencontre une amie et elle m'a invite chez elle a chamonix et me voila dans les alpes c'est trop fouuuu comme c'est beau. la jeprouve de la difficulte avec les photos mais ca va ...
Butt chillin' cold
... . This area is similar to Grendelwald, Switzerland with its extreme peaks surrounded by docile and friendly green hillsides. What makes Chamonix more extreme than others, though, was the fact that the jagged edge of a continental shelf pokes up into the ...
Extreme Skiing...and Partying
We made our way back to the airport to meet the driver that was taking us to Chamonix, France. We wandered around the airport looking for him and got a little concerned when we couldn't find him. Turns out Emile walked passed him a few times since he was ...
Apr 13, 2008
Chamonix
Well I didnt do a whole lot in Chamonix. went on some hikes and did some relaxing. its another town that reminded me of banff. ski resort town with nothing but tourists, but beautiful. how could it not be with mountains surrounding ...
No, definately not got vertigo
... it brief. Ok, so we completely underestimated how long it would take us to get thru the mountains and into Italy. Writing this from Chamonix, just on the French side of the 11km tunnel thru mont blanc. It's a lovely place, maybe a bit too posy with ...
On top of the world
... the dried beef and pickles. I was sure that we were going to pop. I was pleasantly miserable From the centre of Chamonix at 1035 m, the Aiguille du Midi cable car carries you to 3842 m into high mountain peaks. The first time I took the ...