Walking Easy in the Italian & French Alps (Walking Guides).Walking Easy in the Italian & French Alps (Walking Guides)
Enjoy the wonderful summer walking trails found in the Alpine regions of Italy and France. Using this guide and its maps, you can explore beautiful foot paths through mountain meadows and hamlets. Choose routes starting from one of the seventeen base villages selected by the authors for their magnificent mountain locales, charm, availability of public transportation, and accommodations. Rated at one of three levels of ease (gentle, comfortable, and more challenging), each walk takes from two to four hours, excluding ‘take in the view’ breaks or picnics along the way.

Michelin the Green Guide French Alps (Michelin Green Guide: French Alps).Michelin the Green Guide French Alps (Michelin Green Guide: French Alps)
This tour book is more detailed than general books on France. It provides websites, small maps, small city maps, driving tours, excellent history of the towns, and recommended sight-seeing.

Michelin THE GREEN GUIDE French Alps.Michelin THE GREEN GUIDE French Alps, 1e (THE GREEN GUIDE)
This title in the acclaimed Michelin Green Guide series covers a vast mountainous region extending from Lake Geneva south to the Grand Canyon du Verdon, close to the Mediterranean. It is an area of wild natural beauty and striking contrasts from the snow-capped peaks, glaciers, forested slopes, rich mountain pastures and lakes of Savoie and Dauphine to the sunny valleys of Brianconnais and Queyras and the arid landscapes of Haute Provence dotted with picturesque hilltop villages and bathed in the unique Mediterranean light.

The French Alps News

  1. Winter X Games expand into Europe - USA Today
    Ski Club of Great BritainWinter X Games expand into EuropeUSA TodayThe Games are hosted at Tignes ski area in the Northern French Alps. Tignes also hosted freestyle skiing during the 1992 Albertville Winter Olympics. …European X Games Ski Superpipe EliminationNewschoolersall 50 news articles »…
  2. Speed shearing hits French Alps - Brisbane Times
    Brisbane TimesSpeed shearing hits French AlpsBrisbane TimesFarmers in France's alpine region are borrowing an Australia and Kiwi idea to promote the local economy and tourism. 09/03/10 Please wait while we detect …
  3. Cycling doc has plenty to be grateful for - Oxford Mail
    Cycling doc has plenty to be grateful forOxford MailOn Friday he arrived in Dubrovnik after tackling snow in Britain, the French Alps and carnival season in Italy. Dr Fabes said: “My front light wasn't …and more »…
  4. Paraglider hike and fly events in the French Alps for autumn 2010 - Cross Country magazine
    Paraglider hike and fly events in the French Alps for autumn 2010Cross Country magazineThe Queyras Tour takes in this beautiful alpine region which spreads southeast of Briancon to the Italian border. The tour will use the mountain refuges in …
  5. Aberdeen skier badly hurt as he hits skidoo - Aberdeen Press and Journal
    Aberdeen skier badly hurt as he hits skidooAberdeen Press and JournalA young Scottish skier suffered multiple injuries in a high-speed horror crash with a skidoo in the French Alps. Sweyn Ross was kept in an …Skier in a coma after smash with skidooAberdeen Evening Expressall 2 news articles »…
  6. Sheep shearing competition in French Alps - KSDK
    Sheep shearing competition in French AlpsKSDKSt. Etienne En Devoluy, France (RTV) — The French Alps played host to an Australian tradition over the weekend. The French Alps are better known for their …France gets into the Sheep-shearing SportNTDTVall 4 news articles »…
  7. Ski Festivals In The French Alps - FemaleFirst.co.uk
    Ski Festivals In The French AlpsFemaleFirst.co.ukThe French Alps are this year playing host to a variety of events – from six-day comedy festivals in Meribel to extreme sports competitions in Tignes …