Explorar Chamonix-Mont-Blanc

The Montenvers Railway is a metre-gauge rack railway that climbs 5.1 km from Chamonix to Montenvers station at 1,913 m, above the Mer de Glace glacier. Its first section opened in 1908 and the full line in 1909; red electric trains now take about 20 minutes, on gradients of 11 to 22 per cent.

Le Brévent is a 2,525-metre summit at the southern end of the Aiguilles Rouges range, facing Mont Blanc across the Chamonix valley. A gondola from the town to Planpraz and a cable car above it, first opened in 1930, reach the top, which looks straight across to the Mont Blanc massif; the Tour du Mont Blanc and GR 5 trails pass nearby.

The Mer de Glace is a valley glacier on the north side of the Mont Blanc massif, about 7.5 km long. From the Montenvers viewpoint at 1,913 m, reached by rack railway from Chamonix, a gondola and stairs lead down to an ice cave dug into the glacier every year since the 19th century, and the Glaciorium explains the glacier's retreat.

The Aiguille du Midi is a 3,842-metre granite peak in the Mont Blanc massif above Chamonix. A two-stage cable car, opened in 1955, climbs from the town via Plan de l'Aiguille to the summit station, where terraces, a lift to the top and the glass box Step into the Void look out over Mont Blanc and its glaciers.