Streets of Chamounix

We checked out from the hotel and walked about 2km to out Hotel du Jour, where we stored our luggage until the check-in time and just happily walked around little streets of Chamounix
You can check out all about the town here https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chamonix
The monument is to Horace de Saussure (a very famous Alps Explorer) with Jaques Balmat (mountaineer and guide of Chamounix Valley)
The other monument is to Michel Gabriel Paccard, a Chamounix native, who had a first, unsuccessful attempt to climb Mont Blancin 1783 with Marc Theodore Bourrit. In 1784, he made several attempts with Jacques Balmat before they made the first ascent of Mont Blanc together on 8 August 1786.
Of course there are flowers, but no door we saw were worthy of a picture...Læs mere