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Hockey sur Glace: Chamonix s’est imposé dimanche face à Amiens

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Hockey sur Glace League Magnus

Avant de défier les Brûleurs de loups, Chamonix intraitable face à Amiens

Auteur d’un gros match, Chamonix s’est largement imposé ce dimanche face à Amiens (5-1).

Les Pionniers empochent une victoire amplement méritée avant le choc à Grenoble, vendredi (20h15).

 

Chamonix lance sa saison de ski 2025 ce samedi!

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Chamonix sera la station à lancer la saison du ski en Haute-Savoie ce samedi 7 décembre 2024.

Et dans la capitale de l’alpinisme, même si leur ouverture reste partielle, ce n’est pas un, mais deux domaines qui accueilleront les skieurs en continu dès ce samedi: Les Grands Montets et La Flégère.

Aux Grands Montets, où le chantier de reconstruction est entré en hibernation , la télécabine de Plan Joran, le télésiège de Tabé et le téléski des Marmottons accueilleront les skieurs qui pourront dévaler cinq pistes.

Cinema Vox Chamonix will reopen on November 13, 2024

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Closed since October 26 after its director encountered major health problems, the Vox cinema in Chamonix will nevertheless reopen its doors from this Wednesday, November 13, 2024.

A new team, trained at the Ciné Mont-Blanc in Sallanches (which belongs to the same company), will therefore welcome all moviegoers from November 13, 2024. Note, however, that the three movie theaters in Chamonix will operate as usual in the off-season, with at least one day of weekly closure.

Jérémy Seguda, vice-world champion of sushi

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Jérémi Seguda, the chef of the Yumidori restaurant in Chamonix, became vice-world champion, sublimating the art of sushi.

At the end of August 2024, Jérémi Seguda experienced one of the craziest moments of his career as a chef. He became world vice-champion in his discipline even though his participation was not even initially planned.

Chamonix Unlimited Festival, la musique électro à Chamonix

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Le festival de musique électronique créé en 2016 revient pour une nouvelle édition en proposant des concerts dans une dizaine de sites, du centre-ville à l’aiguille du Midi.

Ski, danse et amour, sont les maîtres mots de l’Unlimited festival. Un bouquet de concerts entremêlant musique électronique, sports de glisse et nature au pied du Mont-Blanc sont au programme, le tout durant huit jours du lundi 25 mars au lundi 1er  avril.

Antoine Socquet-Juglard sets new mountain bike record for Tour du Mont-Blanc

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On 5 September 2023, Antoine Socquet-Juglard from Mégeve set a new record for the Tour of Mont-Blanc on a mountain-bike. Antoine did this without any crew to provide bike changes and nourishment, in a time of 15 hours 55 minutes, beating the previous record set earlier this summer.

Ultra Trail du Mont Blanc 2023, the programme for a crazy week

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Final preparations for the Ultra Trail du Mont-Blanc, which is celebrating its 20th edition this year. Here is the programme for the 2023 edition:

Monday, August 28, 2023

- La Petite Trotte à Léon starts at 8 am from the Place du Triangle de l'Amitié.

- At around 1 p.m., the first finisher of the MCC is expected under the finish arch in front of the town hall of Chamonix, while the 1,000 runners will have started at 10 o'clock from Martigny (Switzerland).

Two climbers die from Aiguille du Tour rock fall, massif Mont-Blanc

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Tuesday, 1st August 2023, two men aged 26 and 36, died while climbing the Aiguille du Tour, from the Swiss side of the mountain at the north end of Mont Blanc massif.

Two separate accidents on the same day, on the same mountain, both caused by falling rocks.

A 26-year-old French mountaineer and a 36-year-old climber from the Netherlands were climbing the east face of the Aiguille du Tour which overlooks the Trient Glacier, on the Swiss side of the Mont Blanc massif.

Chamonix outdoor swimming pool open 2023 summer season

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Although the outdoor pool at the Richard Boxon Sports Centre has been open since 1 July, today Saturday 8 July 2023, saw the official opening of the pool, with free access, a ceremony and a demonstration.

The Chamonix out-door Swimming pool is 50 metres in length and is a stainless steel basin.

For the opening ceremony, Eric Fournier, in the company of Ghislaine Bossonney and Aurélie Beaufour, cut the tricolor ribbon.

Eric Fournier is the president of the community of communes of the Valley of Chamonix-Mont-Blanc (CCVCMB).

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