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Chamonix, France

Things to do in Chamonix

Everything in the Atlas for Chamonix: places to see and things to do, in one list.

Aiguille du Midi

3,842 metres in twenty minutes by cable car, with Mont Blanc across the glacier.

Mountain · 3 hours

Mer de Glace

France's largest glacier, reached by rack railway, with the steps down signed by the year the ice reached them.

Mountain · 3 hours

Down to the Mer de Glace

The steps to the ice are signed with the year the glacier reached each level; the descent is a chronology as much as a walk.

Walk or hike · moderate

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