Our Blog - Mont Blanc cable car from Les Praz to La Flégère

So this blog will have lots of pictures and not that much text. Les Praz is a village which is somewhat connected to Chamonix and is one of the locations which has a cable car to the ski areas above Chamonix. From the village, the cable car goes up over a golf course and takes you to the La Flégère site, at an altitude of about 6100 feet. Puppies are allowed up to that level but not up to the next level (8500 feet) because it is a chair lift. Needless to say, it wasn't a big deal to stop at the first level because Lucy was not a fan of the cable car.

These first pictures are just outside of the Chamonix/Les Praz area, and you can see the mountains in the background. The tallest ones, Mont Blanc and those next to it, still have snow on the top. There are others as well which must be lower as the snow has all melted off.

Lucy seemed okay with our little stop along the way with the mountains behind her. The top peak, which is behind the clouds, is Mont Blanc, which tops out at 15,771 feet.

The initial cable car system was built in 1953. In 2014, the town started investigating a replacement for this cable car, moving to a 10-seat gondola lift which would increase the capacity and insure better service during peak periods and windy conditions. The new La Flégère gondola was opened in December 2019. We have have the cars coming into the station, and then Lucy on the cable car ... she wasn't happy! It seems she doesn't like the glass and looking out, she had the same issue with the glass elevator at the hotel in Grenoble.

Pictures on the way up (sorry for the water on the glass, they wash the cars on the bottom. You can see the golf course and the town, as well as the mountains.

Much of the area at the La Flégère area is a protected natural area, including the small lake, so we weren't able to do much walking around. And we just tried to get some nice pictures of the Alps and Mont Blanc.