If you’re renting skis, you can’t go far wrong with France’s biggest ski rental franchise chain, InterSport. They have multiple shops in the Chamonix valley, their prices are competitive ...

Chamonix - Zermatt, from France to Switzerland across one of the most fascinating Haute Route ski mountaineering traverses in the Alps, by Italian Mountain Guide Nicolò Berzi. Multi-day traverses have ...

The latest example is France’s Tom ... Check some photos and video clips of the very steep descent on Tom Lafaille’s Instagram: “It’s a real ski mountaineering route, with sections that ...

France's Lionel Claudepierre has set a new record on the Chamonix - Zermatt Haute Route ski mountaineering traverse in a record 18 hours and 35 minutes. Mountain Guide Paolo Tombini shares his views ...

The early season snow on the pine-filled slopes of Mont Blanc is the best Chamonix has seen for ... like being a bumper Christmas for France's ski resorts, with flights and ferries from Britain ...