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Les Houches
Chamonix is a resort town at the foot of Mont Blanc in France. A very popular winter ski resort with some excellent skiing including one of the longest ski runs in the world. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.
- Visual description
- Chamonix is a resort town at the foot of Mont Blanc in France. A very popular winter ski resort with some excellent skiing including one of the longest ski runs in the world
- Nature
- original
- Medium
- Open-licence photograph
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
BEFORE MODERN SPORT
Les Houches
How settlement, access and winter sport shaped Les Houches.
Scroll to read the contour through time
Les Houches is an alpine commune in the Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in Southeastern France.
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BEFORE TOURISM
Work and settlement beneath the snowline
The village is home to a famous physics summer school (the Les Houches School of Physics), founded by Cécile DeWitt-Morette.
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ACCESS CHANGES
A route reaches Les Houches
Les Houches has four railway stations (Taconnaz, Les Houches, Viaduc-Sainte-Marie, and Vaudagne) on the Saint-Gervais–Vallorcine railway and the section from Les Houches to Servoz holds the world record gradient for an adhesion railway at a 9% gradient over a distance of 2,000 m (6,562 ft).
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Les Houches
Chamonix is a resort town at the foot of Mont Blanc in France. A very popular winter ski resort with some excellent skiing including one of the longest ski runs in the world. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.
- Visual description
- Chamonix is a resort town at the foot of Mont Blanc in France. A very popular winter ski resort with some excellent skiing including one of the longest ski runs in the world
- Nature
- original
- Medium
- Open-licence photograph
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
1900
Winter becomes organised
Les Houches, located 6 kilometres from Chamonix, is a ski resort with a domain which extends from an altitude of 950 metres up to 1900 metres.
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THE LIVING MAP
The mapped place
Les Houches is recorded at 45.893° N, 6.797° E. Its catalogue reference reaches 1,900 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-HOUCHES.V00 · ORIGINALClose ledger · AOD.EU.LES-HOUCHES.V00
Ledger AOD.EU.LES-HOUCHES.V00
Les Houches
Chamonix is a resort town at the foot of Mont Blanc in France. A very popular winter ski resort with some excellent skiing including one of the longest ski runs in the world. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.
- Visual description
- Chamonix is a resort town at the foot of Mont Blanc in France. A very popular winter ski resort with some excellent skiing including one of the longest ski runs in the world
- Nature
- original
- Medium
- Open-licence photograph
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
TODAY
Les Houches now
It is served by one cable car (Bellevue), one gondola lift (Prarion), eight chair lifts (all four-person), three drag lifts, a rope pull and a moving carpet, as well as two further drag lifts in the "Le Tourchet" village-centre ski area.
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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 Houches
AOD.EU.LES-HOUCHES.V00 · original · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
Les Houches
AOD.EU.LES-HOUCHES.V01 · original · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
Editorial record
Full European Beta edition. Place evidence is adapted from the linked Les Houches overview under CC BY-SA 4.0 and remains subject to named historical and local review. Cartography is generated from the PeakWave location catalogue.