For the past 18 years, the town of Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, supported by a dynamic team of scientists, journalists and valued partners, has organised the "Festival des Sciences".
The theme in 2008 is :"Identity"

Each year at the Grands Montets, this fun event celebrates the end of the winter season with a bang! Music, bbq, free style, water skiing, ski testing, sky diving, world records.....

Sell/buy at the garage sale at the Espace Olca 9:00-19:00. Cal 06 27 36 8042 for info about a stand. Organised by Les Eoliennes.

Flegere is scheduled to close for the season.

An amazing course which starts in Chamonix and goes through Servoz, Les Houches, St. Gervais, Bionnassay, through Switzerland over mountains, in the valleys, along lakes.
The Raid Millet is a real team event. 2 team members run simultaneously with a 3rd assistant/replacement. The course is divided in 4-5 stages by day: trail, VTT, orienteering, snow shoeing, rope work, and a surprise.

In 2008, one of the most famous mountain railways celebrates its hundredth year of travel to the Mer de Glace. To commemorate this event, the Company du Mont Blanc has organized the 2nd tourist train show to take place in Chamonix.

At the Richard Bozon Sports Centre. Open event for kids through seniors.

Les Grands Montets is scheduled to close for the season May 11th.

At the Cross Country Ski area from 09:00 - 18:00

Z'EST DE SWING (Faucigny) + JACQUES SENLY & CHRISTIAN ASCHEHOUG (Swing Valse)

Schedule : 20:30 Entrance : 5 & 3 euros

Garage Sale at the Ecole du Centre organized by the Parents Association. 12:30 - 14:00: set up 14:00 - 17:30: sale Refreshments. Rain date = 24 May

Sound, sound, and more sound...

A unique evening with the best DJs of the valley and the Urban Jam All Starz.

Schedule : 20:30 Entrance : 5 & 3 euros

Flower stands and gardening advice.

Organised by the "Club des sports de Chamonix."

Victims of global warming, the glaciers are suffering. While the ice shelf is melting at high speed, the glaciers in the Alps are receding.
From Greenland to the Himalayas and from the Andes to the Antarctic, these glaciers seem to be doomed.

Guy Martin-Ravel exhbibits with "Fragile" his most recent collection of photographs.
Guy Martin-Ravel retraces the life of a mountain guide who has left the mountains for other horizons! This exhibition is his own autobiographical photo collection. Through the lense of his camera, during a number of humanitarian missions, he bears witness to the fragility of man's condition.

The Espace Tairraz presents an exhibition about the minerals and crystals of the Mont-Blanc region.
5 euros
Everyday: 14h to 19h.
School Holidays: 10h to 12h and 14h to 19h

Half poetry, half realism, Takeo Adachi's work is characterized by an omnipresent motif, stone, which he perceives as a mysterious, concentrated force. Focusing particularly on pebbles arranged in a line or a circle, Adachi draws them in minute detail with a pencil, from a very low angle. In his latest series Adachi adds rope - a Japanese symbol of life and purity.

Offerings to Egyptian Gods
Organised by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

On permanent exhibition: Collection Louis & Evelyn Franck, La Cour Chagall, Léonard de Vinci-the inventor, the Auto and Gallo-romain museums & Sculpture park.