Sitting just north of Mont Blanc, Chamonix, also known as Chamonix Mont Blanc, is a commune in southeastern France's Auvergne Rhone Alpes region. In the company of the most famous mountain in the ...

But should you head to the Swiss Alps or the Dolomites? Opt for a luxe, glitzy resort or book a stay in a low-key Alpine ...

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 ...

This French glacier has given rise to countless works of art in the past 200 years. Paintings, photos and satellites reveal ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The mayor of the French Alps town of Chamonix has banned the extreme sport of wingsuit flying for six months after a spate of deaths in recent months. Eric Fournier, the mayor of Chamonix, a town ...