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 ...
One of the legendary spring skiing adventures is a trip down the Vallée Blanche along the rugged shoulders of Mont Blanc down into the mountaineering town of Chamonix, France. It is a life-long dream ...
Buried deep in snow at 2,100 metres (6,889ft) in the ski resort of Chamonix in the French Alps – in the shadow of Mont Blanc – a scurrying sound is coming from above. It’s followed by panting and ...
In the mid-1920s, Paris was a center of intellectualism as a generation of writers, artists and expatriates—some of whom were veterans of the bloodiest conflict in modern history—shared ideas and ...
The town of Chamonix, France, looks like any other bustling mountain town in the Alps—until you look up. The pure vertical relief is mind-boggling: Granite mountains shoot 10,000 vertical feet from ...
I was 12,600 feet above sea level in a whipping wind, clinging tightly to my skis and a fixed rope. As I moved across the ice, my ski boots twitched on a steep slope and then disappeared over a ...
The government closed ski lifts, fearing they might spread the coronavirus. The skiers came anyway. Credit...Pete Kiehart for The New York Times Supported by Photographs and Text by Pete Kiehart ...
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