Chamonix was in my opinion the most beautiful place in the world. My Fiance and I were there for a week in Summer 2004. We decided to catch a cable car up the mountain that day so we could play in the snow. Once we were through with the snowball fighting, we went for a trek to a lake that was in a bowl between two mountains. Unfortunately we overshot and ended up about six kilometers past the lake and decided to head back to the cable car to find that it had stopped for the day, we began the 2.5km vertical descent. 7 harowing hours later, we bashed
the snow off our boots and hooked into some great tucker at nearly midnight.
I was starting to calm down after our encounters with deer (scary horns included) and marmots in the dead of night. Looking back it was all very funny. Especially when we couldnt see shit so we used the lcd on our camera as a torch. Any way, we then decided on a day of rest, so we cruised around chamonix for a bit, anyone going to france MUST visit this place, its expensive, but well worth it. The following day we caught a train up the mountain to a glacier and went into an ice cave(tourist gimmick) that was quite cool, excuse the pun.