Chamonix Day 2

Today we went to Augille de Midi (needle at midday) - a cable car ride to a solitary rock pinnacle that rises to 3842m. It still holds the record as the highest vertical ascent cable car in the world, from 1,035 to 3,842 m - as you can imagine when you step out you feel a bit hypoxic - because you are! It’s hard to describe because you arrive on a block of rock and then cross a bridge across a void into a tunnel bored into the mountain top. Inside are various tunnels leading to viewing platforms and then an elevator which takes you to the top. From there you can line up to “step into the void” - a perspex box built out over a 800m drop!
The vista looks out over the entire Mount Blanc massif of the Alps stretching from Switzerland to Italy. In winter you can ski from here all the way to the bottom of the valley!
There were rock climbers and paraskiers ( skiers using parachutes to help navigate the higher rocky areas) out on the rocks and the slopes.
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