Posts Tagged "Chamonix"

Brévent at night

Mont Blanc at sunset

Sunset over Mont Blanc

Alps at sunset

Sunset over Brévent

Moon rising over the Alps

Moon rising over the Alps

Moon rising over the Alps

More photos from Chamonix…

Just got back from skiing the Vallée Blanche, one of the world’s classic ski tours. We skied down from the top of the Aiguille du Midi through the Mer du Glace, surrounded by crevasses and seracs.

It’s really frightening to see just how much the glaciers here have melted. The Mer du Glace, one of Europe’s longest glaciers is rapidly shrinking at a rate of about one centimeter and hour. At the end of the Vallée Blanche there are markers showing where the glacier came to in 1980, 1990, 2000, and 2003; the difference between 2003 and now is immense and the difference between 1980 and now is truly shocking.…

Aiguille du Midi

View from the Aiguille du Midi

Mont Blanc

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Panoramic view of the Alps from the Aiguille du Midi

Bonne Année! Here are some photos of Chamonix over the holidays.

Holiday Lights in Chamonix

Holiday Lights in Chamonix

Here are a few more photos from around Chamonix:

Slalom Race

Slalom Course and Chamonix at Night

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Slalom Race

At last, an update from Chamonix. Sorry for not posting sooner, but I’ve been busy settling into life here and figuring out my plans for the winter. I’m on Winter Break from French, so I finally have time to take photos and update this blog.

It looks like I am going to spending a good portion of the winter living in Chamonix studying French and skiing. I’m still planning on traveling to Asia and New Zealand, but right now I am enjoying being in once place for a little while.…

Sorry about the lack of updates, I’ve been spending the last week settling in here. After a thirteen hour train ride from Venice, I arrived, exhausted, in Chamonix, France last Saturday. It’s hard to believe that a thirteen hour train ride could be worse than I imagined it would be, but somehow it was. It turns out Italian train stations are really not the place you want a several hour layover in the middle of the night.…