Aventures alpines à Chamonix

Alpine Adventures

The Mont Blanc massif encompasses Europe's most iconic alpine terrain, centered around the 4,810-meter summit of Mont Blanc. This selection features the Mer de Glace, France's largest glacier, and the Aiguille du Midi, known for its high-altitude cable car station. It includes technical peaks like Aiguille Verte and essential mountaineering stops such as the Refuge des Cosmiques and the emergency Vallot Hut. Spanning the French and Italian borders, these sites highlight the region's massive ice falls, historic high-altitude shelters, and the dramatic granite spires of the Chamonix valley.

Alpine Adventures — Carte

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Mer de Glace

The Mer de Glace is a valley glacier located on the northern slopes of the Mont Blanc massif, in the French Alps.

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Aiguille du Midi

The Aiguille du Midi is a 3,842-metre-tall mountain in the Mont Blanc massif within the French Alps.

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Mont Blanc

Mont Blanc is the highest mountain in the Alps and Western Europe, and the highest mountain in Europe outside the Caucasus mountains,…

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Col de Balme

The Col de Balme is a high mountain pass of the Alps, located on the border between Switzerland and France.

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Bossons Glacier

The Bossons Glacier is one of the larger glaciers of the Mont Blanc massif of the Alps, found in the Chamonix valley of Haute-Savoie…

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Dôme du Goûter

The Dôme du Goûter is a mountain in the Mont Blanc massif. It is a shoulder of Mont Blanc, whose summit lies two kilometres to the south…

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Mont Blanc du Tacul

Mont Blanc du Tacul is a mountain in the Mont Blanc massif of the French Alps situated midway between the Aiguille du Midi and Mont Blanc.

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Albert Premier Hut

The Albert Premier Hut, sometimes known as Albert 1er, is located on the Haute Route between Chamonix, France and Zermatt, Switzerland.

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Torino Hut

The Torino Hut is a high mountain refuge in the Alps in northwestern Italy.

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Couvercle Hut

Refuge du Couvercle is a refuge in the Alps.

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Vallot Hut

The Vallot Hut is a refuge in the Mont Blanc massif on the upper slopes of Mont Blanc in the Alps.

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Grands Mulets Hut

The Grands Mulets Hut is a mountain refuge in the Mont Blanc massif in the French Alps at an altitude of 3,051 m.

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Cosmiques Hut

The Cosmiques Hut is a mountain hut in the Mont Blanc massif in the French Alps at an altitude of 3,613 m.

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Argentière Glacier

The Argentière Glacier is a glacier in the French Alps. It is one of the larger glaciers found within the Mont Blanc massif, and is…

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Aiguille Verte

The Aiguille Verte, which is French for "Green Needle", is a mountain in the Mont Blanc massif in the French Alps.