Home to A-list alps, five ski resorts, and the first Winter Olympic Games exactly a century ago, France’s mountain adventure hub remains as podium-worthy as ever. View post: We Enlisted Freeriders, ...

As the athletes paraded through the streets of the French Alpine town of Chamonix in January 1924, few would have imagined this would be the start of the world's biggest winter sports event. There ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Before multiple cameras filmed skiers flying through the sky at enormous heights and snowboarders flipping in the air, Nordic ...

The first Winter Olympics, which opened on Jan. 25, 1924, in Chamonix, France, weren’t called “the Olympics” at the time. In short, the name was “International Winter Sports Week.” In full, in French, ...

Editor’s note: This story was originally published on Jan. 30, 2025. A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Jan. 30, 1924, Gillis Grafström of Sweden won the ...

Neither cute chalet nor bland concrete block, Chamonix’s Rocky Pop hotel claims to be a chilled new take on winter holidays – and makes a fine base for our beginner snowboarder Built to store ...

FLAT CAPS, three-piece suits and ties and athletes puffing on their pipes – welcome to the first ever Winter Olympics. It was like an episode of Miss Marple on Ice. Britain’s gold medal-winning ...

Ninety years ago, on January 25, 1924, the first Winter Olympic Games opened in Chamonix, France. Initially known as Semaine des Sports d'Hiver (International Winter Sports Week), the games were ...

Hopes of a joint bid from France, Italy and Switzerland seems to have been scuppered after Chamonix announced they would not participate ©Getty Images Officials in Haute-Savoie, a region in the Alps ...

ucked away among the summits of the French Alps, the valley city of Chamonix Mont-Blanc received its first snowfall of 2017 on Dec. 7. The Jakarta Post was greeted by Chamonix Mont-Blanc promotion ...

Before the Winter Olympics became the spectacle it is today, it began as a modest ensemble of athletes in Chamonix, France. The snowy, French commune hosted the first winter games with 16 ...