Haute Route
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The Haute Route is the name given to a route undertaken on foot or by ski touring between Chamonix, France, and the Matterhorn, in Zermatt, Switzerland.
Two alpinists on the Otemma Glacier on the Haute Route
View of Matterhorn and Dent d'Hérens from the summit of Tête Blanche, high point of the Haut Route (3,710 m (12,172 ft))
Vignettes Hut, near Arolla, Switzerland
Aiguille du Dru in 2006
Chamonix
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Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, more commonly known simply as Chamonix, is a commune in the Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in southeastern France. It was the site of the first Winter
Haute Route
…Route (or the High Route or Mountaineers' Route) is the name given to a route (with several variations) undertaken on foot or by ski touring between Chamonix, France, and the Matterhorn, in Zermatt, Switzerland. First charted as a summer mountaineering route by members of the English Alpine Club in the…
The Chamonix Valley seen in 2010 from La Flégère with Mont Blanc in the background
Horace Bénédict de Saussure, with Jacques Balmat (left) who points towards the summit of Mont Blanc, Monument at Chamonix.
Chamonix Valley: crossing the glacier on foot (between 1902 and 1904)
Front and façade of the Chamonix-Mont-Blanc railway station.