Sights

Sights exist in such profusion around here that it is almost an impertinence to choose particular ones - however there are two trips from Chamonix which may merit special attention.

One is the trip to the Mer de Glace [known to generations of Alpine tourists as the Murder Glass]. This involves travel first to Montenvers in a little train a hundred years old and then the cable-car up to the frozen sea of ice. http://www.compagniedumontblanc.fr/en/montenvers/index.html

The second is an amazing trip which goes in three [four?] stages from France to Italy. This can be done in either direction but the stretch between Chamonix and Courmayeur in Italy has to be done by bus through the Mont Blanc Tunnel. If you are doing this first, you get the cable car to the Pointe Helbrunner. Form here you take a slow lift in small cars for four people across the Alps, over massive cevasses, to the Aiguille de Midi, back in France. Form there a cable descends in two stages to Chamonix.