Apartment Chalet Whymper, Les Houches, Chamonix, Mont Blanc Apartment Chalet Whymper is situated in the traditional Savoyarde Village of Les Houches, entrance to the Chamonix Valley at the foot of Mont Blanc and home to the Kandahar World Cup downhill race. It's a one-hour drive from Geneva Airport (all of it motorway) and Chamonix town is just 6km away.
The apartment is virtually ski in ski out with the Bellevue Cable Car and Chair Lift Coupe de Monde just 150 metres away together with the Ski Bus stop giving access to the vast number of other ski areas in the Chamonix Valley. Fully equipped and furnished to a high standard with high definition TV showing BBC and ITV satellite channels (freeview). Within 150 metres there are three good restaurants, three bars (two also serve food), a good selection of shops including a fromagerie, a boulangerie, a newsagent and Le Refuge de Payot (selling regional food, wine plus complete meals). In this same area there are ski/ snowboard and bike hire shops plus the offices of the ski school. 
Please click on the above photos to view a large version. Click here to see the latest snow conditions in the resort from the Web Cams based at Bellevue and Prarion lift stations. Chamonix Valley Weather Forecast for Today and This Coming Week:
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Olympic champion Plushenko banned
Russia's former Olympic figure skating champion Yevgeny Plushenko is banned indefinitely for competing without permission in exhibitions. | Walker to drive British bobsleigh
Paula Walker will drive Great Britain's bobsleigh on the World Cup circuit this season after injury forced world champion Nicola Minichiello out. | Slopestyle endorsed for Olympics
Snowboard slopestyle and ski half-pipe could make their debuts as Winter Olympic sports at the next Games in Sochi in 2014. |
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Oct 05, 2007
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New Ski Lifts - Les Houches Link to St Gervais
It’s been confirmed that in the next two years 4 new ski lifts (including a gondola and two chair lifts)... [more]
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