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Chamonix is a winter sports resort town that still attracts skiers ready to test themselves both on the pistes in the official area and against the challenges of the backcountry skiing. [13] As the highest European mountain west of Russia, [14] Mont Blanc attracts mountain climbers. Chamonix is known as the "Gateway to the European Cascades."
Les Houches, located 6 kilometres from Chamonix, is a ski resort with a domain which extends from an altitude of 950 metres up to 1900 metres.Long descents through tree-lined slopes are combined with impressive views of the Mont Blanc massif and the Chamonix valley.
The FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1962 were held in France from 10 to 18 February at Chamonix in Haute-Savoie. [ 1 ] Chamonix previously hosted the alpine world championships in 1937 , and also the first Winter Olympics in 1924 , but without alpine skiing, which debuted in 1936 .
Stade Olympique de Chamonix is an equestrian stadium in Chamonix, France. It hosted the opening and closing ceremonies to the 1924 Winter Olympics along with cross-country skiing, curling, figure skating, ice hockey, military patrol, the cross-country skiing part of the Nordic combined, and the speed skating events. The stadium holds 45,000.
The development of skiing in the late 1880s and the creation of the first ski slopes in the Alps (Saint-Moritz in Switzerland) led to the development of the first ski resorts based in villages such as Chamonix, Megève (a resort launched by a sports journalist and Baroness Noémie de Rothschild in 1921) and Pralognan-la-Vanoise.
"Chamonix 1924". Olympics.com. International Olympic Committee. Official Report (1924) of both Summer and Winter games: M. A. Avé, Comité Olympique Français (ed.). Les Jeux de la VIII e Olympiade Paris 1924 – Rapport Officiel (PDF) (in French). Paris: Librairie de France. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 May 2011