Tag: French Alps
A music festival in the snow you say? Combining one of my favourite sports, snowboarding, with a bit of bass music seems too good to be true; and Snowboxx in the high Alpine resort of Avoriaz definitely fits the bill. Snowboxx is one of the fastest growing music festivals on…
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Are E-Mountain Bikes the next big thing in cycling? Alf Alderson reckons so… “If a bike has a motor then it’s not a ‘proper’ bike,” said my mate before I had my first ride on a mountain bike last summer, and I had to admit I thought pretty much the…
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Climbing Mont Blanc Europe’s highest point to discover a solution to my problem of needing to bypass Libya It had always been my intention to make an ascent of Mont Blanc, France during my Alpine trek. It seemed a fitting thing to do – to walk from sea level to the…
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Mountain Biking in Tignes And Val D'Isere High up in France’s Tarenataise region, Tignes and Val d’Isere are renowned as world class ski resorts. But when the summer comes, there’s just as much downhill fun to be had – only this time its on some of the best mountain bike…
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Several hundred metres above Lake Annecy in the French Alps Just about to settle down for the night – but I should emphasise that when I say I’m ‘above’ the lake I mean that quite literally. I’m perched on a ‘portaledge’, a device used by mountaineers to get a good…
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