Chamonix has been at the sharp end of Alpine adventure since 1760, when a Genevois scientist offered a prize for the first ...

Neither guidebooks nor snapshots and not even long-ago memories prepared me for the intimidating beauty of the French Alps. As our tour bus pulled into the Chamonix Valley, there they were — a jagged ...

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 ...

The French Alps are a wintertime hotspot, the world class slopes attract ski and snowboard enthusiasts from all over the world. However, the villages in the valleys of the Alps also deserve attention ...

Eating out in Chamonix is epic, epicurean and astonishingly international for a French region as traditional as rural Savoie.

Oxford Mail reporter Harrison Jones spends a weekend partying at France's biggest new ski resort. La Folie Douce looks unfinished to some. It is rowdy, regularly crowded, debauched – and fabulously ...

Chamonix has been at the sharp end of Alpine adventure since 1760, when a Genevois scientist offered a prize for the first ascent of its famous local mountain – Mont Blanc, 4,807m, the highest in the ...