#Planpraz

[emaadsidiki]

Brevent and Planpraz via Chamonix 🏔️

[robbialy]

From • @chamonix_unlimited some will play at 3842m, some for the mighty planpraz sunset, others in the heart of @chamonixmontblanc. you’re gonna dance everywhere. 4 days and 5 nights of wild skiing and music, join here : www.unlimited-festival.com @blackcrows_skis @montblanc_nr @anonoptics @zenmix_com @foliedoucehotelschamonix https://www.instagram.com/p/CqJNZbDjEuP2HvfFtzcxkANm3yWyVOcnBe0lLA0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[ganhosdoelefante]

Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, 19 de dezembro de Ano 1 - Sábado - Blogger - 25 anos

07:00 - Acordamos, tomamos banho e nos arrumamos. 

08:00 - Tomamos café:  Natifs Café

08:30 - Visitamos um museu:  MUSEE DES CRISTAUX - EspaceTairraz

10:00 - Subimos:  Telecabine De Planpraz

Le Brévent, Chamonix

Le Brevent Junction

14:00 - Almoçamos:  Le Bartavel

15:30 - Avaliamos:  Carrefour Market Chamonix Mont Blanc

16:00 - Chegamos e trabalhamos; 

17:00 - Tiramos uma soneca.  18:20 - Tomamos banho e nos arrumamos para sair.  19:30 - Jantamos:  La Tablée

22:00 - Chegamos e dormimos. 

[squeezedimsum]

Restaurant with a view #labergerie #planpraz #frenchalps #montblanc #ski

[bhappygirl]

2019. 8. 9. 금요일. Le Brévent - Planpraz 브레방 정상에서 점심을 간단하게 먹고 브레방 호수가 보이길래 저기라도 다녀올까 싶어서 내려가다보니 이정표에 호수까지 1시간 반이 걸린단다. 그럼 다시 올라올 것까지 생각하면 안되겠다 싶어 조금만 내려가다 다시 올라와서 케이블카 타고 내려왔다. 역시 카메라로 사진을 찍어 핸드폰 사진은 별로 없다. 건너편에 몽블랑도 보이는데 역시 구름이 끝까지 내게 몽블랑을 보여주지 않았다. 구름도 꼭 몽블랑처럼 둥글었다. 그리고 아르장띠에흐, 메르 데 글라스 쪽 빙하도 잘 보여서 빙하가 점점 녹아 쌓여있는 길이가 점점 줄어들고 있다고 안내해준 글도 있었다. 그리고 뒤쪽은 피츠장벽도 보이고 전에 갔던 세흐보 마을쪽도 보이고 콜데보자도 조금 보였다. 해발이 2525m라 그런지 주변을 잘 볼 수 있었다. #B행소녀 #여행박스 #샤모니 #Chamonix #프랑스 #France #캠핑 #camping #트레킹 #trekking #LeBrévent #Planpraz(Sommet du Brévent Chamonix에서) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2CjGWtB62v/?igshid=rc7ro2btguxz

[equatorjournal]

Gaston Rebuffat on the tiny summit of Clocher de Planpraz, 1950s. "Gaston Rébuffat (1921 - 1985) was a well-known French alpinist and mountain guide. The climbing technique, to gaston, was named after him. Rébuffat began climbing in the Calanques becoming a mountain guide in 1942. He rose to international prominence in 1950 as one of the four principals of a French expedition during the first ascent of Annapurna, the highest peak then summitted. His most famous mountaineering feat was to be the first man to climb all six of the great north faces of the Alps... Known for his lyrical writing and his ability to convey not only the dangers of mountaineering but the pure exaltation of the climb, Rébuffat authored several books. His most famous written work is Etoiles et Tempêtes (Starlight and Storm), first published in French in 1954, and in English in 1956." https://www.instagram.com/p/CHvhWuPAF8j/?igshid=qirikrxjlodv

[theartindeparture]

Part 6: The Art of Wandering

July 2,  2017  

It seems that my circumference for wandering has continued to expand since our arrival. Where at first the adventure of moving through the dense aisles of marketplaces and stores were enough for the tourist high, I’ve begun to venture further outwards, into the periphery. Coming up on one of our final free weeks before our trip to Annecy, and then the end of the program, I thought it might be a fantastic opportunity to travel solo to a small mountain town I’d read about called Chamonix Mont-Blanc. Situated just beyond Geneva and before the Italian dolomites, the Mont Blanc range had always caught my eye as an avid backpacker. It’s historic preservation of the original romance architecture and the incredibly resilient outdoors culture have coalesced into something of an alpinist heaven. I traveled there in time for the Chamonix Yoga Festival, and spent the first day hiking and backpacking, and the following two days at an Airbnb near the yoga festival. 

The Mont-Blanc range is unlike anything I’d experienced before. I decided to take on the Planpraz-Brevent trail (or chemin en Français) which is about a 9 mile out-and-back hike that brings you from the base of the town up to the range’s second peak. The beauty of Chamonix as an outdoor community is that it sits in something of a bowl shape, surrounded by these grand ranges and mountain faces. Because of this, no matter what trails you take up into those ranges, it’s almost impossible to get lost, as you can always see the town below. There’s a sense of security that comes with this, as if you can always gaze on home, and play around in this vastly imagined backyard. I ended up meeting some amazing paragliding guys up on the peak, who I exchanged information with and promised that if I’d ever returned to Chamonix we could tandem paraglide! As a side note, traveling solo through this town has helped expand my French in fresh, unexpected ways. Reliance on the self requires a new level of vigilance, not just with language but what you are trying to communicate of yourself, and I find myself more inclined to speak freely here in French without the imagined sense security of having familiar faces around me. I also feel much less self-conscious about my ability to speak in French, as stumbling over words feels more an indication of my abilities rather than a symptom of my shortcomings. I’ve also found that I’m something of a different person in French, and that’s been half the journey... I’m more reserved and calculated with words, and also rely much less on humor than I do in the English language.  I guess you could say that as I wander through this new town, I happen upon new and different versions of myself. 

In exploring such unfamiliar territory (both in the mountain town and in myself), it was good to return to a sense of home through the Chamonix Yoga Festival. Though the retreat was done almost entirely in French, the incorporation of Sanskrit into the vinyasa flows and meditations made everything very comprehensible. It was an edifying process to say the least, to see the relationship of the French to yoga as opposed to its American counterpart. Here, postures and meditations are practiced differently than in the US, the cultural differences being the most significant. In the American-yoga format, much more emphasis is placed on the core of the body and “corework” as it relates to aesthetic beauty (probably relating to the US’ long infatuation with exercise as it relates to physical attraction). In France, circulation is much more foregrounded, as most yoga postures seek to create a relationship between the left and right sides of the corps (body), as opposed to just building a more lean body. I also admit that I navigated the retreat relatively well in French! And by the end of the retreat, I was incredibly comfortable with understanding the french language in relation to anatomy: les doigts, le visage, le dos, la tête.. The reason I think the Festival was so spectacular for my confidence in the french language had mostly to do with the way in which the language was spoken. Practices of breathing in yoga meant that speaking was drawn out into long breaths, punctuated by movement. So every french command was associated to a particular posture. In this way, the language became embodied for me. Many of the classes were held inside L’hôtel Majestic, as well as at the summit of Planpraz (which could also be reached by ski lift). In the end, I left the retreat having made a few new friends in the French yoga community! I met one amazing instructor named Katy Mission, who was traveling from Annecy to lead the Festival! I promised I would return for one of her studio classes when our group visited Annecy the following weekend. 

All in all, as I jumped back on the flixbus (french equivalent of a Greyohound bus) to return to Lyon, (with a box of fresh figs in hand of course) I felt an overwhelming sense of release, having been able to surrender to ebb and flow of wandering and getting to feel all the beauty of being foreign, without feeling alienated. 

[iamlshauntay]

My entire perspective of what people of color, particularly African Americans, could do changed a bit over five years ago. I'm not comfortable with being this honest but I too, believed in some of the stereotypes of places or things that black bodies don't do. Add on being a plus size woman to the equation and I severely limited myself. In hindsight, I know a lot of this thinking stemmed from fear, lack of accessibility and the inability to change my palate. We are ignorant to our peak success when we are unaware of how to embrace its complications. Sometimes it's in the form of the physical challenge while others may be the oppression greeting you to stay in your comfort zone. Once I was aware of the options in front of me, I made it a personal mission to myself to live out my childhood imagination well off in my adulthood. I think I have more of a respect and appreciation for the outdoors now than I would've have in my youth. The way I see things now will evolve in the next five years. And for a change, I'm actually looking forward to that. I'm not as scared of what adventures lie ahead of me. My life is not about defying stereotypes but combating my own personal biases created from people who were equally as scared of their own potential. #runningfatchef #fatrunner #womenwhohike #unlikelyhikers #fatwomenofcolor #womenwhotravelsolo #blackwomentravel #changetheworld #trailblazer #hellobeautiful #melaninpoppin #melanin #lovealways #loveyourself #adventure #glassceiling #mountains #challengeyourself #eurotrip #france #womenwhotravel #womenempowerment (at Brévent Planpraz vallée de Chamonix) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bna5cThF2YW/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1e7yjabwioo5m

[coachrushton]

Running in the mountains always makes you feel quite small. . . #Nature #Hiking #Trails #NeverStopExploring #Snow #Explore #Adventure #Photography #Running #Chamonix #Instarunners #chamonix #chamonixmontblanc #hautesavoie #alpes #super_france #france_vacations #topfrancephoto (at Planpraz 2074 m d'altitude) https://www.instagram.com/p/ByuewDfghN4/?igshid=176ip8kven1w0

[sarahgrahamphotography-blog]

Planpraz // Chamonix

[emaadsidiki]

Europe from above the clouds atop Mont Blanc. 🚠🏔️

[summerspictures]

Bonjour parapente over the Chamonix valley (at Brévent Planpraz vallée de Chamonix)

[robbialy]

What a treat #chamonix_unlimited had prepared for us @#planpraz

[carlascanvas-blog]

Hiking the Grand Balcon du Sud in Chamonix, France

I was brought to the charming resort town of Chamonix to attend the annual Mont Blanc Marathon.  With a few days to spare I wanted to take advantage of the outdoor recreation that Chamonix is famed for.  I was recommended the Grand Balcon du Sud (there is also a North version)  to take in as much of the mountain scenery as possible.  It turned out to be a great choice because the hike provides amazing views of the Mont Blanc mountain, lovely wildflower fields reminiscent of Heidi, and a fairly level walking path that most individuals can complete in about 2.5 hours.

Discovering the Grand Balcon du Sud

The Grand Balcon du Sud is a 6 km trail that connects two furnicular stations, the Planpraz and Le Flegere.  Therefore, you can start at either ends of the path, but I highly recommend starting at Planpraz.  The reason being it is more downhill than up when heading that direction.  The downside is that the Mont Blanc is to your back as you walk away from it, requiring the occasional stop to see the view behind you.  I was more than willing to go for a less strenuous hike and make some pit stops along the way for pictures.

Heading out of the Planpraz funicular follow the uphill path on the left, you should see a corded off area for parasailers on the left hand side.  There will also be sign post just outside the station (see below) and you should follow the signs for Le Flegere.  After that you should be good to go without worrying too much about getting lost or ending up on the wrong path.  For the most part you can clearly see the path ahead of you and can anticipate what is coming next.

As I mentioned earlier the terrain is mostly flat and ever so lightly downhill for the majority of the trek.  I will say that there is an initial uphill as you leave the station and about 70 minutes in, you have some old wooden stairs to climb, but the rest is fine.  The terrain is also easy to walk with lots of dirt and gravel, except for about 2 spots where there are some larger boulders that you need to carefully walk through.

Sensational Views

Now to the good stuff, the views.  They are absolutely phenomenal ranging from the snowy white Mont Blanc to the aerial view of the city of Chamonix.  I felt I needed to pinch myself because the scenery was surreal and almost like a movie being played in front of me.  Don’t rush through, instead take the time to take in the breathtaking scenery throughout.

  At the end of the trek at La Flegere station, I decided to take the additional funicular and ride up to L’Index at 2396m.  What was enjoyable (and scary at the same time) is that the lift is an open chair.  It makes getting pictures of the view pretty easy, but when the wind blows you may want to hold on tighter!

L’Index is popular with ice and rock climbers which come for the jagged faces of the mountains and snowy remnants.  Yes, there was still some snow in parts at the top of the mountain but it’s not very cold in the summer.  After snapping a few photos, I headed back down and took the funicular back to the bottom at Les Praz.  For those interested in spending more time, there is a restaurant at Le Flegere with a great outdoor terrace.

Planning Your Hike

One of the logistical issues is how you will be heading back after trekking across the mountains.  There is a bus the connects to Chamonix, but the schedule is very limited so be warned!  If you have some energy left, there is a shady path that follows the river just at the back of Les Praz station and it brings you directly back to the downtown of Chamonix.  Plan about 45 minutes for the walk in total.

Finally, you may want to explore different payment options for the hike and visiting the area in general.  I got a multi-day pass for two non-consecutive days because it made the most sense for what I had planned.  It also covers a number of different attractions which I wanted to see.  For more information check out the local tourism website at: www.chamonix.com

Hiking the Grand Balcon du Sud in Chamonix, France was originally published on Carlas Canvas

[bhappygirl]

2019. 8. 9. 금요일. Le Brévent - Planpraz 브레방 정상에서 찍은 파노라마 #B행소녀 #여행박스 #샤모니 #Chamonix #프랑스 #France #캠핑 #camping #트레킹 #trekking #LeBrévent #Planpraz(Sommet du Brévent Chamonix에서) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2CiPn9htgu/?igshid=xmf1rofyez9u