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Les Gets French Alps
500px provided description: A view of the little town between mountains. 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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- 500px provided description: A view of the little town between mountains
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- Open-licence photograph
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- Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 3.0
BEFORE MODERN SPORT
Les Gets
How settlement, access and winter sport shaped Les Gets.
Scroll to read the contour through time
Les Gets is a commune in the department of Haute-Savoie, in the region of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, southeastern France.
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BEFORE TOURISM
Before the resort map
The linked local overview does not preserve a clear account of Les Gets 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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1938
A route reaches Les Gets
The village's first single-person chair lift was opened in 1938 with the first chair lift on Mont Chéry in 1954.
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View from the Piste, Les Gets - Flickr - gruntzooki
View from the Piste, Les Gets. 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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- View from the Piste, Les Gets
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- original
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- Open-licence photograph
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- Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
ORGANISED SPORT
Winter becomes organised
Les Gets is a linked ski resort within the Portes du Soleil.
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THE LIVING MAP
The mapped place
Les Gets is recorded at 46.158° N, 6.669° E. Its catalogue reference reaches 2,002 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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Open ledger · AOD.EU.LES-GETS.V00 · ORIGINALClose ledger · AOD.EU.LES-GETS.V00
Ledger AOD.EU.LES-GETS.V00
Les Gets French Alps
500px provided description: A view of the little town between mountains. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.
- Visual description
- 500px provided description: A view of the little town between mountains
- Nature
- original
- Medium
- Open-licence photograph
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 3.0
TODAY
Les Gets now
The snowpark is located on Mont Chéry, which is on the ski area on the other side of the village.
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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
Les Gets French Alps
AOD.EU.LES-GETS.V00 · original · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 3.0
View from the Piste, Les Gets - Flickr - gruntzooki
AOD.EU.LES-GETS.V01 · original · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
Editorial record
Full European Beta edition. Place evidence is adapted from the linked Les Gets overview under CC BY-SA 4.0 and remains subject to named historical and local review. Cartography is generated from the PeakWave location catalogue.