VISIT CHAMONIX MONT-BLANC, ALPS

To prepare for it, we offer as a preamble, a discovery of mountaineering with an altitude run for acclimatization and a valley climbing school to polish your technique in rocky terrain before embarking on this adventure.

While traveling to Chamonix, other less sporting attractions are unmissable, such as the Montenvers train, a historic railway line along a spectacular route.
For a century, the little cogwheel train has taken travelers to Montenvers station, at an altitude of over 1900 m, to the Mer de Glace. The beauty of the site will leave you speechless. Facing you, descending the northern slope of Mont Blanc, the Mer de Glace, the largest glacier of Mont-Blanc, the Drus and the Aiguille Verte and all alone in this majestic setting, for nearly 150 years, the Grand hotel du Montenvers, designed at the time as a large refined chalet intended for a wealthy clientele.
From Montenvers station, a cable car takes you down to the level where the glacier was located in 1946. It is since this date that the Mer de Glace cave has been dug every year, an attraction with sounds, lights and ice sculptures. which attracts many visitors.
Today, the Mer de Glace has become an emblematic witness to climate change. It is the focus of all eyes and stirs up new and major ecological and scientific issues. The background of the Mer de Glace recedes to the point of threatening the disappearance of the famous cave sculpted inside.

Leaving the Montenvers cable car, a long staircase runs along the granite cliff. At the end of a few steps, a sign indicates: “level of the glacier in 1985”. You have to bend down to see the ice, a hundred meters below, almost invisible under the heap of gray rocks that it carries year after year.
Fifty steps lower take you to the year 1990. Then the descent continues as the glacier melts, with an acceleration in the 2000s. After the last panel, that of 2010, it is still necessary to descend 70 steps before setting foot on the ice.
On the Montenvers site, the Glaciorium is an interpretation center to answer any questions you may have when you are facing a glacier like the Mer de Glace.
A snowshoe trip on the Mer de Glace is of course possible in the company of a guide who will take you to discover this magical world.

Another exceptional site located at an altitude of 3,842 m is the Aiguille du Midi at the top of the monumental cable car arrival station. It is a huge antenna because the Aiguille du Midi is home to the epicenter of terrestrial broadcasts in France. Its terrace offers a panorama on all the main peaks over 4000 m in the French, Swiss and Italian Alps.
But if the place attracts crowds, it is because the Aiguille du Midi is also the starting point for the ascent of Mont-Blanc via the three Mountains, (two summits before reaching Mont-Blanc being the Mont-Blanc du Tacul and Mont Maudit), and towards the mythical Vallée Blanche, a very famous off-piste, the opportunity for the most daring to set off on new adventures.

For a more serene but no less exhilarating adventure that will deliver intense sensations, an elevator takes you from the summit terrace to the upper platform where an entirely glazed box awaits you, the Pas dans le Vide, a safe and unmissable experience. Here, the gaze embraces the highest peaks in Western Europe and the Bossons glacier which offers the largest glacial drop in the world of almost 3370m (4810m – 1440m).
You can continue your extraordinary journey over the glaciers between the Aiguille du Midi and Pointe Helbronner in Italy by taking the Panoramic Mont-Blanc cable car.