Video: Nikolai Schirmer And Friends Tackling The Steeps In Chamonix Chamonix, France offers some dang steep skiing and loads of exposure. In this video Nikolai Schirmer, Krister Kopala, Jacob Wester, Flo Bastien, and a few others explore some of what this place has to offer. Many ski lines around Chamonix require not only expert skiing ability but also climbing, rappelling, and glacier navigation skills. It is not uncommon to have […] Featured Video Ryan Nadiak | February 11, 2020 0 Comments
Chamonix, France Report: Powder Has Returned To The Chamonix Valley Report from 30th January 2020 The snow has returned to the Chamonix valley! There was a small storm cycle that came through a few weeks ago but was followed by very warm temps and no more precipitation. Beginning this past Monday, January 27th, a storm sank into the valley. The snow totals were high Monday night but were followed by […] Conditions Report Ryan Nadiak | February 3, 2020 0 Comments
Chamonix Trip Report: Alpine Climb And Ski From Aiguille du Midi, France Report from 12th January 2020 Chamonix, France is home to some of the most spectacular mountaineering in the world. For this reason, I have chosen to call it home for this winter. Even though I have done a fair share of mountaineering in my past stepping into the more technical side of things here is a major eye-opener. This past […] Trip Report Ryan Nadiak | January 16, 2020 0 Comments
Derailment of Famous Montenvers Train, Chamonix, France Blamed on Human Error On Sunday the famous Montenvers train that leaves from Chamonix center and heads up the icy Mer De Glace derailed. Fortunately, no one was hurt and a backup train arrived to take the passengers back down to the valley floor. After an investigation, officials are claiming there was no technical issue with the train and the derailment is likely as […] Industry News SnowBrains | August 16, 2019 2 Comments
Don’t Miss the Cosmojazz Festival This Week in Chamonix, France Chamonix is no doubt a place where you should ski at least once in your life. But Chamonix is not only a capital of extreme skiing and climbing destination, it is also a place of popular concerts. If you’re in Chamonix now, don’t miss Cosmojazz Festival which takes place from July 20th till July 28th this year. The Festival was […] Claire Weiss | July 22, 2019 0 Comments
UPDATE: Despite Disastrous Cable Car Fire the Grand Montets Ski Area near Chamonix, France WILL Open this Winter In the early afternoon of Tuesday 11th September, a devastating fire broke out at the upper station of the 1st cable-car between Argentière & Lognan (Les Grands Montets ski area), near Chamonix, France. The fire spread almost instantaneously throughout all the buildings of the arrival station, creating severe damage to the infrastructures of the two cable-cars, causing cables to snap […] Industry News Steven Agar | September 14, 2018 0 Comments
Chamonix, France Cable Car Fire a ‘Big, Big Disaster’ | Cables Snapped Sending Gondolas Crashing to Valley Below The fire that engulfed the Lognan cable car mid-station in Chamonix yesterday has been described as a ‘big, big disaster’ by Compagnie du Mont Blanc president, Mathieu Dechavanne. The lift, which connects Argentiere and Les Grands Montets ski area, was severely damaged. ‘The fire took hold quickly and progressed into the lift building. No one has been injured which is the […] Fire Firebrains | September 12, 2018 0 Comments
VIDEO: Breaking News – Lognan Cable Car, Chamonix, France on Fire this Afternoon Sept. 11th 2018 The mid-mountain Lognan cable car station in Argentière, near Chamonix, Haute-Savoie, has been on fire since 14:00 local time on Tuesday, September 11, 2018. The Telepherique du Lognan cable car serves Les Grands Montets (10,810 ft), a skiing area famous for its steep and demanding slopes, both on-piste as well as off-piste. Helicopters have been dropping water in an attempt to […] Fire SnowBrains | September 11, 2018 0 Comments