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Les Houches is one of the main ski areas in Chamonix (Gaëtan Haugeard) ... according to recent reports from both the Ski Club of Great Britain and the tour operator Crystal, which has seen a 10 ...
Les Houches, located 6 kilometres from Chamonix, is a ski resort with a domain which extends from an altitude of 950 metres up to 1900 metres.Long descents through tree-lined slopes are combined with impressive views of the Mont Blanc massif and the Chamonix valley.
The Vallée Blanche ski run is a 20 km (12 miles) long, unmarked off-piste ski route which begins very steeply from the Aiguille du Midi station and, because of its complexity across crevassed glaciated terrain and needs for route-finding, is best undertaken with a mountain guide.
Because of the massif's great overall height, a considerable proportion is permanently glaciated or snow-covered and is exposed to extremely cold conditions. Even on the high passes of the Tour du Mont Blanc, around 2,000 to 2,500 m (6,600 to 8,200 ft), summer temperatures can be between 5 and 15 °C (41 and 59 °F), but feeling much colder ...
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It stands at an altitude of 3,835 meters on the snowy ridge of the Aiguille du Goûter (3,863 m), which separates the Val Montjoie from the main basin of the Arve Valley, with the towns of Les Houches and the alpinism and ski resort of Chamonix-Mont-Blanc. Annecy is 60 kilometers to the west and Lyon nearly 180 kilometers.
Col des Montets (elevation 1,461 m or 4,793 ft) is a mountain pass in the French Alps in the Haute-Savoie department of France.It is on the road between Chamonix, the Swiss Col de la Forclaz and Martigny in the canton of Valais, Switzerland.
The Grand Couloir is a couloir on the Aiguille du Goûter.At 3,340 metres (10,960 ft) altitude, this gully has to be traversed on foot to reach the scramble beyond the Tête Rousse Hut (3,167 metres (10,390 ft)) up to the Goûter Refuge (3,835 metres (12,582 ft)) on the Goûter Route on Mont Blanc.