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 marvel ...

On 20/11/2012 Julien Herry, Francesco Civra Dano, Luca Rolli and Davide Capozzi skied and snowboarded down the famous Mallory Route on Aiguille du Midi in a 14-hour round-trip starting from Chamonix.

It was a warm day on the Aiguille du Midi. The towering, 12,605-foot peak above Chamonix, France, was first made accessible by cable car in the 1950s and has since blossomed into a steep skiing mecca.

Last Tuesday French Mountain Guide Julien Herry and ski instructor and aspirant mountain guide Raph Bonnet skied the Jumeaux Spur, a striking line up the centre of the North Face of the Aiguille du ...

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 ...

It was a warm day on the Aiguille du Midi. The towering, 12,605-foot peak above Chamonix, France, was first made accessible by cable car in the 1950s and has since blossomed into a steep skiing mecca.

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. It is the ...