Reached French Chamonix...a tiny village just under Alps.
And immediatey envied the people who stay there!
Start of the Cable car ride...
Towards the snowcapped mountains...
Cables crisscrossing!
Change cable cars here.
The last touch of greenary!
View from here.
Looking up!
And upward again...
Going all the way up...
To where snows and clouds become inseperable!
Then take an elevator to...
Top of the peak...at 3842 m... (Just to give a perspective, Mont Blanc in ~4800m, while Mt.Everest is 8848 m)
Far over the clouds...
and the valleys!
Within touching distance of the snow coverd mountains.
Covered in snow and clouds.
And the crown of the Apls, Mont Blanc!
In the Land of...
High peaks...
Deep slopes...
And clouds...
And climbers, of course!
Getting ready to take the plunge!
lonely hike!
A get together?
So near...
Yet so far!
It was freezing cold out there...
Quite evidently...
Coming down again...
And back to solid grounds!
A toy train!
Just looking around!
A river flows through the valley!
Taking the train to the glacier
From the station
Could it ever climb up?
On our way...
A lazy climb up!
Again to the land of snow!
Reached...
Earlier the glacier was right here.
Then it was just a cable car ride away...
Now one has to walk a bit too, to reach it.
The cleanest effect of global warming you could ever see!
Thats why a glacier was defined as ariver of snow in geography text books!
Coming back to station again.
Contrast!
Village streets
The river again.
An old church, with an actual wedding going on!
Dare to run?
One last look!
Panorama
