Chamonix

— Journey —

2 h from Lyon

Chamonix sits at the foot of Mont Blanc, the highest summit in the Alps, and remains the spiritual home of mountaineering since the first ascent of 1786. Two hours from Lyon, FFGR Lyon arranges arrivals beneath the Aiguille du Midi, helicopter flights over the Mer de Glace, and private guides for the Vallée Blanche descent. The town itself blends serious alpinism with Belle Époque grandeur — the Hôtel Mont-Blanc, the Casino, the Maison Carrier for Savoyard gastronomy. For UHNW patrons, the appeal is the proximity of raw, glaciated altitude to genuine comfort: the cable car to 3,842 metres departs minutes from a fireside suite.