Les Houches
Chamonix + Contamine, a broken day
Col Cornu, a (mini) Ski Tour
Crochues-Berard Traverse
Chamonix Mont Blanc
First Snow in Chamonix
It will probably have melted by the time you get to look 🙁 at this webcam from Place Balmat, but today there has been some fresh snow in Chamonix centre, and the forecast says there’ll be more overnight! Obviously it snows in Chamonix’s high mountains all year, but it gets quite exciting when the first …
Autumn in Chamonix
The colours in Chamonix, with the glorious low angled sunshine, are fantastic at this time a year. Also, a note for the future – alpinism at this time of year might be better than the traditional summer season? What is certain is (thanks to global warming?) the season is longer…
EuroKIMM Mountain Marathon
Where’s it gone…?
An Alpine start, we got up extra early this morning to catch the 6.10am lift up to the Aiguille du Midi. Our plan was to climb Chere Gully on the Triangle du Tacul, but by the time we got there someone had taken away the Triangle du Tacul. In fact someone had taken away everything! …