Chamonix Day 1

Chamonix is a ski resort town in a valley surrounded by high peaks (including Mount Blanc). We headed up on the cable car to Auguille du Midi ( augille is a sharp pinnacle of rock in a mountain range and this place is full of them - more on that tomorrow) getting off at the halfway point at 2317m to commence the Grand Balcon Nord walk (grand northern balcony) which goes for 7km traversing the northern side of the valley crossing old glacial moraine and mountain streams with a never ending jagged soaring peaks above you. The end point was the Mer de Glacé - river of ice - France’s longest glacier - now only 7km in length but once was double that.
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