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When is the best time to visit Mont Saint-Michel?
It is one of the ten most visited tourist sites in France. Outside of Paris, Mont Saint-Michel is even the number one site in France with around three million visitors…
French Alps: Six dead in avalanche accident near Mont Blanc
Status: 04/10/2023 3:49 p.m Six people died in an avalanche accident in the Mont Blanc region of the French Alps. A combination of rising temperatures and wind may have triggered…
Emergencies: Six dead in an avalanche accident near Mont Blanc
emergencies Six dead in avalanche accident near Mont Blanc A banner indicates the high risk of avalanches in the Alps. photo © Denis Charlet/AFP/dpa Six people died in an avalanche…
Accidents: Four dead in an avalanche accident near Mont Blanc
accidents Four dead in avalanche accident near Mont Blanc At least four people died in an avalanche on the Mont Blanc mountains in the western Alps (archive photo). photo ©…
“People everywhere, all the time”… Mont Saint-Michel wants to scatter its visitors
A Tuesday morning in April. It’s past 11 a.m. and the parking lot is filling up nicely. The hundreds of tourists who get out of the cars have hardly set…
The vein of “white gold” has dried up at Mont Serein, on the north face of Ventoux
A few scattered snowdrifts let themselves go along the edge of the last asphalt bends winding towards the Mont Serein ski resort, located on the north face of Ventoux. We…
A Briton dies in an avalanche in the Mont Blanc massif
A 45-year-old Briton died on Saturday after being caught in an avalanche while hiking with two other people in the Mont Blanc massif, the gendarmerie and the emergency services said…
Travel News: Tourists stay overnight on Mont Blanc – and are reported by the mayor
Two tourists have set up camp on Mont Blanc in France. The mayor of the nearby town has reported them for it. The reason: nature conservation. However, the mountaineering community…
At Mont Aigoual, where the mercury is blazing, we are experiencing “a climatic explosion”
Mount Aigoual is an implacable witness to climate change. In recent years, this summit, which culminates at 1,565 meters, between the departments of Gard and Lozère, has collected worrying meteorological…
It has never been so hot in October at Mont Aigoual
Never, since the beginning of meteorological measurements on this site in 1896, it had been so hot at Mont Aigoual, a month of October, reports Météo-France. Over the period from…