For travel to Chamonix take the Eurostar from London St Pancras to Paris. The trip was provided by the Chamonix Tourist Office. With the understatement and modesty you might expect from a Scottish farmer, Thomas Murray sent a telegram home, reading simply: PLAYED TODAY. But earlier that January about 1.7 metres of snow fell in one 24-hour period, and hundreds of Chamonix residents with shovels joined the army to clear the stadium and the ice rink, removing snow with hand-pulled sledges just in time.Īnd the four Scottish curlers? Well, they ended the games triumphant, thrashing the home nation to win Gold. ![]() Under the powder blue sky the town twinkles in the sunlight, rather as it did on the opening day of the games in 1924. View image in fullscreen Vallée de Chamonix. As she headed off along a narrow ridge towards the glacier, I stuck to type one fun, taking selfies with Mont Blanc in the background and squinting down at Chamonix as if from an aircraft window. I gripped the handrail and wished her luck. The air was noticeably thinner at the summit. Thank you for watching if you like the content and want to support it, then subscribe to the channel and like it. The fun comes afterwards when you relive it over a beer.” Spotting my blank expression, she said: “It’s scary, hard work and pushes you. “It’s type two fun,” she grinned as the cabin swung slightly alarmingly over the town. Skiing the Vallée Blanche is a rite of passage for off-piste fanatics but she was going further with a friend, climbing even higher with her skis strapped to her back before setting off downhill. Squeezed into the cable car, I chatted to Brit Annie-Jo Gregory. Still in a post après-ski stupor I forced myself onto the first lift just after 8am, the only passenger without skis, ropes and other terrifying looking high-altitude apparatus. It is hard to imagine that in 1924 downhill skiing was barely a thing, and not even represented at the Olympics ![]() The original Aiguille du Midi lift carried the Olympic bobsleighs up the mountain (Great Britain took silver behind the Swiss) today its efficient replacement carries tourists and hardcore skiers from the town centre to 3,840 metres. We introduce an Integrated forest Fire Danger assessment System (IFDS) for the Alpine country Austria that includes i) daily fire weather index data, ii) a countrywide hazard map for fire ignition through human activities, iii) a lightning fire hazard map, iv) a high-resolution fuel type map, and v) a topography-based estimation of the fire hazard. Breathing in lungfuls of alpine air and grinning with delight as I head down the much-loved runs of Balme and Les Grands Montets, it is hard to imagine that in 1924 downhill skiing was barely a thing, and not even represented at the Olympics.Ĭhamonix has more than enough runs to satisfy leisurely skiers like me, but adventurers head up above the resort’s regular slopes. Photograph: Auguste CouttetĪ century on, Chamonix is as much of a draw as ever. ![]() View image in fullscreen The huge 1924 ice rink sadly no longer exists. Part 2 of the Dangerous Forest in the Alps is a thrilling addition to the series.
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