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In Megève, Emile Allais introduces the skiers of the French team to his method of downhill in slalom: parallel skis, in view of the next France/Switzerland match.

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In the Critérium National Féminin in St Gervais, the French skiers come to defend their selection for the World Championships in the USA, in Aspen. Lucienne Schmidt-Couttet will finally represent France.

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Passy, in Haute Savoie, is a place renowned for its sanatoriums and privileged for its geographical setting. Tuberculosis patients are treated during cures and a watchmaker’s workshop has been set up in the village to help patients reintegrate more easily into working life.

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The municipality of Praz sur Arly organizes its 6th edition of the Montgolfiades.

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At Contamines, the "Touch and go" paranpente ski competition is organized. Competitors equipped with skis and paragliding must descend to graze targets drawn on the track without stopping to take off in a postcard frame.

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Carnival at Cordon Winter Sports Resort, where participants marched on their skis. The festive day ended with a torchlight descent by the station’s monitors followed by a fireworks display.

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The famous line of the Petit Train des Neiges Saint Gervais - Vallorcine celebrates its 100th anniversary

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Communes of Mont Blanc

Megève or Mégève? What is the correct pronunciation of this famous winter sports resort? The inhabitants and tourists respond to it as well as Annie Cordy by making an allusion to her song "The tango ruminant".

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Presentation of the church of the Plateau d'Assy and its facade designed by the painter Fernand Léger.

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Combloux will open the first 100 pr cent ecological water body in France; a biotope body of water for bathing in clear, chemical-free water.

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A landslide took a wing of the sanatorium from the Assy Plateau during the night of 15-16 April 1970 causing the death of more than seventy people, the majority of whom were children. The journalist on the spot explains the situation alternately with images of the rescuers in action.