A Century in the Making: Inside Chamonix’s Reborn Mountain Museum

A Century in the Making: Inside Chamonix’s Reborn Mountain Museum

Once upon a time, the Bossons glacier tumbled all the way down into the Chamonix valley. In the 17th century, it reached right down into the settlement of Le Fouly, engulfing farmland, barns and houses. It was so terrifying that local bishops were called upon to exorcise the demons within it. Mary Shelley, who visited Chamonix in 1816, was so gripped by the spectacle that she sent Frankenstein’s…

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