Main monuments The Majestic (ex-luxury hotel built in 1914) The Maison Forte (1759) The Savoy (1910-1914) The Musée Alpin (Alpine Museum) The Casino (former Hôtel Royal) The pilgrims Balmat House The monument in memory of Saussure, Balmat and Dr Paccard The Maison de la Montagne (The Mountain House) (in the past belonged to the religious order but now houses most of the alpine organizations) The Saint Michel Church in Chamonix and Saint Pierre Church in Argentière The English Chapel The Chapels of Les Praz, les Monquarts and les Tines The Chapel of Le Tour The Montenvers Railway and The 'Mer de Glace' Thanks to the Montenvers railway line we have access to one of the most beautiful mountain landscapes. The 'Mer de Glace' (Sea of Ice) is a 7 km long glacier which can be admired from the summit of the Montenvers line at an altitude of 1 913 m. A small cable-car allows us to decend onto the glacier at the mouth of the man-made grotto in the summer, with its ice sculptures and caves, and in the winter (small ice museum). A regular train service runs all winter for the returning Valley Blanche skiers. T 04 50 53 12 54 The 'Les Bossons' Glacier One of nature's marvels right at our doorstep. The largest ice gradient in Europe (3 500 m) with the lowest descending ice formation in the whole of the Alpes (altitude of 1 300 m). Leaving from the chalet, accessible by foot or by the chairlift, numerous view points enable us to admire the colour and the purity of the glacier with its lateral deposits and its enormous seracs ocassionally crashing down on themselves. Several aerial accidents (The Malabar Princess and Kant Chenjunga) have deposited wreckage transported under the glacier down the mountain side to be recovered years later. A display of 11 panels marked out on the footpath explains the life of a glacier, how and why it advances and recedes, and how it reacts to the snow falls in the mountains.