The mountains’ resort towns have reached an inflection point, facing changes that threaten their cultures and even survival, as demand for short-term rentals reshapes the landscape.
CHAMONIX, France — Monday, our fifth and final day in the Alps, dawned crystal clear. This was what we had waited for, through a gray weekend, after turning back two days earlier on a rain-slick ...
The world’s glaciers are disappearing. Climate change skeptics are not. The people who study our oceans and skies worry about both of these phenomena. But in wide swaths of 21st century America, the ...
This is the second of my three-part series on my excellent European Alps adventure. Earlier this week I wrote about Megève and Courmayeur, now it’s time for a look at historic and massive ...
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 ...
Imagine you and your favorite travel partner dangling in your own private little gondola, gliding silently for 40 minutes as you float above the crags and crevasses of the vast Géant Glacier. On your ...
The easiest way to reach the Mer de Glace glacier from Montenvers railway station is to take the gondola ski lift that descends from the platform down to the valley floor, a couple of hundred metres ...
I look up towards the ground and my vision fills with slate rooftops and kitchen gardens; a quick glance down reveals a clear blue sky. The pilot attached to my back pulls her left hand down, or maybe ...
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