Alpine touring in Chamonix
(More images in the French Alps gallery.)
Here are a few images from a few days recently spent in Chamonix, European mountaineering Mecqua. Alpine touring is similar to trekking in its spirit: it is about enjoying a natural mountain environment and often involves much physical effort to climb up before being able to ski down. In Chamonix, where ski lifts bring skiers and mountaineers high in the mountains, that physical challenge is sometimes reduced, though...
Here are a few images from a few days recently spent in Chamonix, European mountaineering Mecqua. Alpine touring is similar to trekking in its spirit: it is about enjoying a natural mountain environment and often involves much physical effort to climb up before being able to ski down. In Chamonix, where ski lifts bring skiers and mountaineers high in the mountains, that physical challenge is sometimes reduced, though...

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Alpine touring skiers on glacier
Chamonix (French Alps, France, Europe)
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Skier silhouettes carrying skis and mountain
Chamonix (French Alps, France, Europe)
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Skier in telepherique
Chamonix (French Alps, France, Europe)
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Skier above Argentiere glacier
Chamonix (French Alps, France, Europe)
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Skiers starting Vallee Blanche descent
Chamonix (French Alps, France, Europe)
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Snowboarder and crevasses
Argentiere (Chamonix, French Alps, France, Europe)
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Chamonix snowboarding
Chamonix (French Alps, France, Europe)
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Forest and snowcapped mountain
Chamonix (French Alps, France, Europe)
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Chamonix Needles
Argentiere (Chamonix, French Alps, France, Europe)
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