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.

There's a reason some of the gutsiest steep skiers in the world call Chamonix, France, home. In the center of town stands the bottom terminal of the Aiguille du Midi cable car. The engineering ...

Rising from the center of downtown Chamonix, France, the Téléphérique de l'Aiguille du Midi cable car climbs more than 9,000 vertical feet to the summit of the Aiguille du Midi. It ascends past the ...

You’ll get a ride on the Aiguille du Midi tram and get to ski a nearly 10,000-foot descent back to town across one of Europe’s largest glaciers.

But a few years ago Andreas Fransson proved the opposite by skiing the Mallory route in autumn, making use of the last days of the Aiguille du Midi cable car before this closed for the yearly ...

As a result, the Compagnie du Mont Blanc ski lift company has decided to replace the cable once again. The second section that leads from Plan de l'Aiguille to Aiguille du Midi is closed as of ...

Stian Hagen, who was born in Norway but has lived in Chamonix since he was 18, made a name for himself as a professional skier back in the 1990s. At that time, he was one of only a handful of people ...

Aiguille du Midi summit from Mont Blanc. iStock All around me are the French, Swiss and Italian Alps. Many peaks top out at over 4000 metres, presided over by Mont Blanc at 4810 metres.