This mural is located in the pedestrian center of Chamonix. It depicts 20 of the favorite mountaineering pioneers over 250 years. It appears to be 3D, it's not!

This is Gorges de la Diosaz. There is a walkway suspended from the mountain side with bridges crossing the Diosaz River, climbing up the gorge with views of 5 waterfalls. The trail was created in 1871 as a discovery trail to share with tourists. Earlier slate was quarried from the area. Every spring the walkways are inspected & repaired from avalanche damage.

We traveled by cog train, gondola and 530 steps to the foot of the Mer de Glacé, one of the Alps largest glaciers.

Climbers were playing around old ice cave entrances.

The glacier was discovered in 1741 & by 1804 they were bringing tourists in by mules. For the last 50 years ice grottos with sculptures are carved into the glacier.

We took a lift up to a trail to hike & found about 30 paragliders waiting to launch. The clouds were thick & they couldn't see the valley floor. When it cleared enough, they started running at about 30 second intervals.
Impressive…we only heard a few screams!!

The view that paraglider has must be awesome, we'll never know!!

Our views were great all day as we hiked the Grand Balcon Sud trail.

Saw this coming down on the gondola. A beautiful golf course. A very nice day for a walk & a round of golf.