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 ...

Chamonix - Zermatt, from France to Switzerland across one of the most fascinating Haute Route ski mountaineering traverses in the Alps ... altitude and corsses glaciers and steep descents where you ...

We head to the legendary French resort to get to grips with the many faces of Chamonix. | Credit: Olly Bowman Few European ski resorts are as legendary as Chamonix. Official estimates say the area ...

Or they take it more leisurely and spend the first night at Refuge d'Argentière. Five, better still six days of regal ski mountaineering trace a line which crosses different 1:25000 maps from Chamonix ...

open image in gallery Les Houches is one of the main ski areas in Chamonix (Gaëtan Haugeard) Aside from its setting, Chamonix’s other huge draw is that it’s incredibly well-connected.