But what a beautiful ride this is, eerily silent, just fluffy snow below and mountain peaks all around. The cable is called the Valle Blanche aerial tramway and it runs between the Aiguille du Midi in France and Pointe Helbronner in Italy. The tiny glass cars ride a 5 km-long cable, one of the highest and longest in the world, as they pass over a glacier dotted with ant-trails of mountain climbers.
I'm listening to Moby's Porcelain.
I'm skipping forward a couple of years to a visit to the pretty town of Chamonix. This was our second time in Chamonix. The first was the start of a hike around Mont Blanc, the second was the start of a hike to Zermatt.
This is Lightroom's display of my photo locations laid over a map of the Mont Blanc massif. The little orange boxes follow the lines of the Chamonix to Aiguille du Midi to Point Helbronner cable car, and the number in each box is the number of photos in that proximity.
