Location: Chamonix in France
Nearest Airport:
Geneva at 100
Kilometres
Car: not necessary
Chamonix has become known as the skiing and climbing capital of the world - it provides the perfect location whether you seek high adventure or just a well earned rest in the most breathtaking of surroundings. Just an hour’s drive from Geneva Airport, it boasts the highest cable-car in Europe, taking you to the ‘Aguille du Midi’, and giving access to the world famous ‘Vallee Blanche’, a 26km ski run in stunning glacier scenery. The town is vibrant all year round and provides an excellent base for both winter and summer mountain activities. It has a wide selection of traditional cafes, as well as fourteen bars, eighty restaurants, one hundred shops and seven nightclubs for the all-important après-ski. Chamonix offers the following: skiing, snowboarding, skating, ice-climbing, snow-shoeing, husky-sledging, paragliding, ballooning, rock-climbing, mountaineering, horse-riding, rafting, mountain-biking, the Haute Route, the Tour du Mont Blanc and much more.....something for everyone!