This lovely old village at the foot of the Alps’ highest mountain, Mont Blanc, has a relatively small ski area, but ...

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 ...

American travelers are increasingly discovering the magnetic pull of the French Alps, with booking data showing a remarkable ...

One of the legendary spring skiing adventures is a trip down the Vallée Blanche along the rugged shoulders of Mont Blanc down into the mountaineering town of Chamonix, France. It is a life-long dream ...

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 panting and ...

In the mid-1920s, Paris was a center of intellectualism as a generation of writers, artists and expatriates—some of whom were veterans of the bloodiest conflict in modern history—shared ideas and ...

I was 12,600 feet above sea level in a whipping wind, clinging tightly to my skis and a fixed rope. As I moved across the ice, my ski boots twitched on a steep slope and then disappeared over a ...