The very popular Haute Route is many people’s first experience of a multi-day ski tour. If you look further into ski touring in the Alps you quickly discover how many different ski tours there are to do. What you then discover if you actually do one of them is how quiet it is compared to the very busy Haute Route.

This group did the Haute Route last winter and wanted to try another multi-day ski tour this year. Our mountain guide Ric, came up with this 6 day itinerary starting from Les Diablerets in Switzerland. They loved it!

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photo-blog Martina Palm 06 Apr 2008 No Comments

At the end of the week, the Ski Touring Course participants decided that they should probably stop playing in the lift-accessed powder and get down to some ski touring. Guide Sebastien chose the Rhemes-Notre-Dame valley in the Aosta region of Italy. Leaving Chamonix, they headed through the Mont Blanc Tunnel to Italy. After about a three hour drive, they parked the car, put their skins on and were immediately befriended by a big white furry dog, who then accompanied them the entire way to the refuge! What Italian hospitality…

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The Ski Touring Course participants had such a great day up l’Aiguille du Midi that they forgot to do any ski touring. They took the Aiguille du Midi cable car up from the centre of Chamonix, went to the top point of 3842m and took in the glorious paranomas.

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This week’s Ski Touring Introduction Course consisted of six participants: Claire, Zoe, Edson, Sarah, Uta and Christoph. Sébastien Laurent was the guide, and had his work cut out for him with an unusual dilemma: we had almost too much snow for safe ski touring! Of course, no-one was complaining as they were forced to do run after run of the white fluffy stuff…..the pictures speak for themselves!

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The winter is far from over! We have had a lot of snow recently in the Chamonix mountains and we are expecting even more this week with very cold temperatures. The off-piste conditions are better than they have been all season. Therefore we have decided to run two more Off-Piste Courses in April, which is often the month providing the best powder skiing of the season.

Dates: April 6-11 & 13-18.

Contact us for more information.

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The Glacier Travel Course on Wednesday, the 19th of March was led by high mountain guide Yannick Graziani. Emma, Nick, David and Arnaud participated, and Anne and Elizabeth from Chamex were allowed out of the office to join in and brush up their crevasse rescue skills too.

The group took the Grands Montets cable car to the top, 3275m.  After a quick moment to admire the stunning views of l’Aiguille du Midi and Mont Blanc, they skied down towards the Argentière glacier, enjoying a few turns of fluffy powder! (more…)

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We have spaces available on an Avalanche Awareness Course that is running on Monday, the 24th of March. If you ski off-piste, or do any backcountry skiing, ski touring or ski mountaineering, your avalanche awareness skills should definitely be up to speed! 

A certified Mountain Guide will take you to one of the ski areas in the Chamonix valley and teach you all about mountain safety regarding avalanches: how to read the terrain, taking into account wind, temperature, aspect and weather history; how to ski safely; and if all preventative measures fail, what to do if an avalanche does occur. After learning the practical theory, you will have the chance to do your own searches using avalanche transceivers.

For more info, click here, and to book, click here.

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Are you planning to go on an expedition to any of the greater ranges in the world towards the autumn or maybe next year? We are pleased to let you know that Chamonix Experience will be running Expedition Training Courses in Chamonix under supervision of Russell Brice. Dates for the first course are 19th to 22nd of June. For more information check out the link. 

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news Martina Palm 17 Mar 2008 No Comments

Check out the new video from the most recent Off-Piste Course here, courtesy of guide Sébastien Montaz-Rosset! If you like what you see and would like to experience it for yourself, please don’t hesitate to contact us!

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To finish off a fabulous and powder-filled off-piste course, the Off-Pisters decided that they had enough energy to go ski touring. They took the cable car to the top of Les Grands Montets, skied down the Rognons glacier and across the Argentière glacier.  

Once across the glacier, the team stopped to put their skins on their skis and then started the sweaty uphill….. (more…)

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photo-blog elizabeth 12 Mar 2008 No Comments