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Morzine - Avoriaz - Panorama - 2025-10-11 22-49-35 001
This picture was uploaded via app "Wiki Loves Monuments France". This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.
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BEFORE MODERN SPORT
Avoriaz
How settlement, access and winter sport shaped Avoriaz.
Scroll to read the contour through time
Avoriaz (French: , Franco-Provençal: ) is a French mountain resort in the Portes du Soleil in the French commune of Morzine, on a shelf above the town of Morzine.
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BEFORE TOURISM
Before the resort map
The linked local overview does not preserve a clear account of Avoriaz before modern tourism.
This edition leaves that part of the timeline open rather than mistaking the first surviving sporting reference for the beginning of the place.
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ACCESS CHANGES
A route reaches Avoriaz
The surviving overview does not identify one decisive access date for Avoriaz.
This edition therefore leaves that date open rather than turning gradual change into a false single event.
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Eastern slope of Les Hauts Forts
Eastern slope of Les Hauts Forts viewed from Lac d'Avoriaz, commune of Morzine, Haute-Savoie, France. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.
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- Eastern slope of Les Hauts Forts viewed from Lac d'Avoriaz, commune of Morzine, Haute-Savoie, France
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1965
Winter becomes organised
Around 1965 former French downhill olympic champion Jean Vuarnet planned a new skiing area on the north side of the Hauts Fort mountain and the Fornet-bowl.
THE LIVING MAP
The mapped place
Avoriaz is recorded at 46.191° N, 6.773° E. Its catalogue reference reaches 2,277 metres. A modern resort map compresses terrain, exposure and access into a diagram. This exhibition keeps the underlying contour visible so the place does not become only a list of facilities.
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Ledger AOD.EU.AVORIAZ.V00
Morzine - Avoriaz - Panorama - 2025-10-11 22-49-35 001
This picture was uploaded via app "Wiki Loves Monuments France". This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.
- Visual description
- This picture was uploaded via app "Wiki Loves Monuments France"
- Nature
- original
- Medium
- Open-licence photograph
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
TODAY
Avoriaz now
Avoriaz remains a lived-in place as well as a sporting destination.
Its present identity continues to depend on the relationship between residents, visitors, access and the landscape or water that first shaped it.
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THE LEDGER
Sources and credits
This exhibition is built from local, institutional and sporting records. The source ledger keeps the claims visible and leaves space for correction as further local evidence emerges.
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Artefacts in order of appearance
Morzine - Avoriaz - Panorama - 2025-10-11 22-49-35 001
AOD.EU.AVORIAZ.V00 · original · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Eastern slope of Les Hauts Forts
AOD.EU.AVORIAZ.V01 · original · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Editorial record
Full European Beta edition. Place evidence is adapted from the linked Avoriaz overview under CC BY-SA 4.0 and remains subject to named historical and local review. Cartography is generated from the PeakWave location catalogue.