France: Vanoise and Chamonix

by Scharlie Platt and Stephen Platt

This trip in the early summer of 1994, like other trips we made to the Alps, is a tale of two parts. First we circumnavigated the Vanoise National Park. Created in 1963, it was the first national park in France and is the most bio-diverse with over 5,000 plant species. It borders the Gran Paradiso in Italy and together they form one of the largest protected areas in Europe. We did the six-day hike with Val, a friend from Sheffield and had the alpine...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1912460599
• ISBN13: 9781912460595
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: Leveret Publishing
• Length: 82 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"