Chamonix
Percy Shelley describes Chamonix in History of a Six Weeks' Tour,
Letter IV.
The layout of Chamonix, looking down from Mont Blanc, in the standard
nineteenth-century guidebook, Edward Whymper's Chamonix and the Range
of Mont Blanc (London: John Murray, 1896).
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This is the valley of Chamonix from the summit of the
Flégère peak to the north, with the chain of Mont Blanc
rising above it.
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The village of Chamonix.
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From Walter Woodburn Hyde, "The Ascent of Mont Blanc," in National
Geographic, 24:8 (August 1913), 861-942.
