Le Pont

Le Pont is a hamlet in Les Houches, Arrondissement of Bonneville, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Le Pont is situated nearby to the hamlet Petit Pont, as well as near Les Granges.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Parc animalier de Merlet and Les Houches station.

Parc animalier de Merlet

Zoo

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Parc animalier de Merlet is a zoo.

Les Houches station

Railway station

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Les Houches station is a railway station in the commune of Les Houches, in the French department of Haute-Savoie. It is located on the 1,000 mm gauge Saint-Gervais–Vallorcine line of SNCF.

Tremplin Olympique du Mont

Pitch

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The Tremplin Olympique du Mont was a ski jumping venue constructed for the 1924 Winter Olympics in Chamonix, France.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Grand Couloir and Chamonix.

The Grand Couloir is a couloir on the Aiguille du Goûter. At 3,340 metres altitude, this gully has to be traversed on foot to reach the scramble beyond the Tête Rousse Hut up to the Goûter Refuge on the Goûter Route on Mont Blanc. Grand Couloir is situated 4½ km south of Le Pont.

Chamonix

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Chamonix is a resort in the Haute-Savoie region of France, bordering Italy, at the foot of Mont Blanc. It's regarded as the birthplace of mountaineering and as one of its capitals.