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Argentière is the starting point for the Téléphérique du Lognan cable car up to Les Grands Montets (3,295 m, 10,810 ft), a skiing area famous for its steep and demanding slopes, both on-piste as well as off-piste. In total, the skiing area is served by a cable car (in two sections), a gondola, five chairlifts and some skilifts.
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."
The Aiguille des Grands Montets (3,295 m) is a mountain in the Mont Blanc massif in Haute-Savoie, France This Haute-Savoie geographical article is a stub . You can help Wikipedia by expanding it .
Watch a live view of the Gaza skyline as the Israel-Hamas war enters a fifth day. Palestinian civilians were scrambling to find safe havens on Wednesday morning (11 October) as Israel stepped up a ...
Grands Mulets Hut Early hut on rocher des Grands-Mulets, vallée de Chamonix (6350175296) Les Grands Mulets, seen from below, showing the broken state of the Bossons Glacier
The pass is generally open in winter, but together with the Col des Montets on the French side it can be closed in extreme weather and will frequently require snow chains and/or winter tires. In the event of closure, travellers who want to go to Chamonix must take the long detour around Lake Geneva. Conditions can be checked with Chamonix ...
Col des Montets (elevation 1,461 m or 4,793 ft) is a mountain pass in the French Alps in the Haute-Savoie department of France. It is on the road between Chamonix , the Swiss Col de la Forclaz and Martigny in the canton of Valais , Switzerland .