Chairlifts, gondolas, and trams are, understandably, a point of enormous fascination for many skiers. Aside from those who shirk ski resorts entirely, they’re fundamental to the skiing experience, ...

Few ski resorts are as evocative as Chamonix-Mont-Blanc. Set in the sawtooth-sided valley beneath the north face of Europe’s highest peak, the town has a strong claim to be the birthplace not just of ...

La Grave Freeride Ski Resort, an extreme ski mecca in the southern French Alps’ narrow Romanche River Valley, shouldn’t be confused with a ski resort in the traditional sense. Rather, it’s a tiny ...

It’s the last day of ski patrol at Aspen Highlands for Clovis Ravenel. He will then return to Chamonix, where he is based. Born in the French alpine resort enclave, he had been on ski patrol for six ...

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 ...