35 photographs from Tuesday 9 June, in the order they were taken. The mountains — the register's one change of altitude. Read Part Four — Chamonix.
Tuesday 9 June · from 12.37pm
Midday
12.37pm · Above the Arve, running milk-white
12.52pm · The station under a grey sky
1.27pm · Larches on the slope
1.27pm · Into the forest
1.31pm · Montenvers, signposted
1.34pm · Les Drus, explained
1.35pm · Cloud sitting low on the Mer de Glace
1.36pm · The train at Montenvers
1.36pm · The red train on the viaduct
▶ 1.38pmThe Mer de Glace from Montenvers — what is left of it, in seventeen seconds.
1.40pm · The moraine, in and out of cloud
1.41pm · The valley of ice behind
1.41pm · The two of us at the Mer de Glace
▶ 1.45pmThe gondola down to the ice — the empty station, and the cable dropping away.
1.54pm · Creuser la glace
1.54pm · Inside the ice
1.55pm · The glacier museum, lights down
1.55pm · The tunnel cut into the glacier
2.08pm · Des chaussettes sur la glace
2.12pm · The gondola over the ice
▶ 1.55pmInside the ice grotto — eight seconds of blue.
2.20pm · A glass at altitude
2.33pm · Controls of the cogwheel train
2.33pm · The driver's cab
▶ 2.37pmThe Montenvers rack railway, going back down through the larches.
2.42pm · Mist working up the valley
Tuesday 9 June · from 3.47pm
Afternoon
3.47pm · House slippers on mosaic
3.47pm · The stairwell, floor by floor
3.54pm · Hôtel Mont-Blanc
4.53pm · The forecourt from above
4.53pm · A robe, a balcony
5.02pm · Same balcony, same idea
5.02pm · Champagne, robes, mountains
▶ 8.04pmThe Arve, running white through the middle of town.
Tuesday 9 June · from 8.16pm
Evening
8.16pm · Le Monchu, Chamonix Mont-Blanc
8.27pm · Escargots, by now a habit
9.20pm · Dusk in the forecourt
9.22pm · By the lobby fire
9.59pm · The corridor, checked
▶ 9.26pmThe fire in the brass hearth at the hotel, 9.26pm.
