The best part of skiing in France is undoubtedly the food. Here’s a shortlist of favorites from traveling to ski in the Mont Blanc Range. France is the land that invented après ski, and it’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chamonix is one of France’s leading ski resorts thanks to its rich history and varied skiing - Maxime Coquard/OT Vallee de ...

Chamonix has a way of making ordinary mountain towns look as though they are not fully committed to the assignment. The valley sits at the foot of Mont Blanc, and the official tourist office presents ...

The first Winter Olympics were held nearly one century ago in Chamonix, France, in the French Alps, in January 1924 Known then as "International Sports Week," the very first Winter Olympics were held ...

Evie Carrick is a writer and editor who’s lived in five countries and visited well over 50. She now splits her time between Colorado and Paris, ensuring she doesn't have to live without skiing or L'As ...

National teams from Canada and the USA in action during an ice hockey match at the first Winter Olympics at Chamonix in 1924. Before multiple cameras filmed skiers flying through the sky at enormous ...

Chamonix, France — Even in the Alps, where ski lifts as varied as the blades of a Swiss Army knife scale mountain after mountain, the 60-passenger tram to the Aiguille du Midi is mythical. It is the ...

Chamonix's reputation precedes it, but does skiing in the macho stalwart of the Alps live up to the hype? Katie writes about skiing for many of the UK’s leading specialist titles. She is now in-house ...

Neither guidebooks nor snapshots and not even long-ago memories prepared me for the intimidating beauty of the French Alps. As our tour bus pulled into the Chamonix Valley, there they were — a jagged ...