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The Compagnie des Guides de Chamonix has year-round a wealth of fun outdoor activities on offer for your next family summer holidays in the French Alps. The Chamonix Valley and its famous surrounding peaks and summits, plays host to great outdoor activities and sporting challenges for children and adults.
Our adventure program brings you unforgettable thrills and adventures in the heart of picturesque and breathtaking scenery. Adults and children can enjoy the valley’s stunning mountain torrents and river rapids with white-water sports such as canoeing, water rafting, river boarding and canyoning. The Gaillands leisure park features bungee jumps and giant zip-lines and is also a great place to introduce young children to the fun of rock climbing. The Chamonix valley’s lifts and cable cars allow access for mountain biking in the legendary terrain of the ‘Pays du Mont-Blanc’offering great outdoor trips.
Our mountain guides and climbing instructors, proper outdoor enthusiast, love nature and the great outdoors, and whether you are complete beginners or experienced climbers, they will guarantee your family and friends have an unforgettable outdoor recreation. Enjoy a weekend break exploring the Alps thanks to a whole host of outdoor attractions. Choose from multiple day-trips made for outdoor enthusiasts for great holidays.
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Rock climbing & Co
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The largest adventure park in the valley with over 100 different areas and zip lines
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Climbing training for the whole family at two steps from the center of Chamonix
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Go climbing around Argentière and enjoy familly lessons with a climbing instructor
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Introduction to verticality over 4 half-days at the Gaillands climbing crag
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Immersion in the exciting world of climbing combining adventures and techniques
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Advanced rock climbing course combining bouldering and cliff climbing
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Learn all the climbing techniques for multi-pitch routes, including belaying and rappelling
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A climbing course to learn traditional climbing basics for crack climbing
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A beautiful half-day introduction to mountaineering
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Magnificent and varied climb, a natural progression from rock climbing lessons
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A magnificent route combining mountaineering and rock climbing
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The perfect terrain to learn multi-pitch climbing techiques: belaying and abseiling
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One of the most beautiful climbs on Brévent with a breathtaking view of Mont Blanc
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The most popular granite route on the southern face of the Aiguille du Midi
White water
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Navigate through the turbulent waters of the glaciers in a raft
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An entertaining and friendly canyon with waterfall abseils and a natural toboggan
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Descents truly aquatic, including jumps, rappels, and slides
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Play among the counter currents whilst river boarding with your board and fins
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Trail running
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3600m positive elevation and 50km, a test in nature to acclimatise and calibrate yourself to the type of effort needed in trail running
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The iconic hiking itinerary covers 160 kilometers with a total elevation gain of 10,000 meters
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Discover the most beautiful locations in the Mont Blanc massif during a day of trail running with a mountain specialist
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Discover the mountain at night, with a headlamp, while enjoying a magnificent sunset facing Mont Blanc
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2 days of mountain immersion with the goal of getting your body used to the specific effort of ascents and descents
Mountain biking
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A mountain biking itinerary to enjoy the best stages of the Tour du Mont Blanc
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Downhill mountain biking in les Houches ski resort to hit the best single tracks
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Half-day electric mountain bike outings to explore the Chamonix Valley
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Initiation to electric mountain biking for an unusual discovery of the Mont Blanc region