- Beginning of the journey at the "Bar le Chamonix": Tiga is drinking tea and meets Didier Simond, a cutler and skiing coach.They take the rack train train to the "Mer de Glace", then go down a via ferrata and reach the moraine: they find fossile wood for the knife that Didier is making.Later Tiga visits the ice-cave of the "Mer de Glace" and arrives at the Grand Hôtel du Montenvers: she is received by Jérémy Brunet : the hotel is full of old pictures of the glacier and Tiga will sleep in the André Dumas room (each room has a name of a famous visitor): for supper Tiga eat the "soupe aux cailloux" a typical dish of Savoie. On the next day Tiga meets Philippe Convers, an itinerant chef: they buy a piece of cheese of Abondance and go picking nettles for a soup: They arrive at the chalet of Florence Kielholz (whose mother was a famous skier): they prepare a nettle soup and other dishes for Florence and her guests.Later Tiga goes to a pastry shop and buys a box of "4810" chocolates: she goes to the "Maison de la Montagne" where she meets Fleur Fouque , a mountain guide.They take the cable-car to "Les Grands Montets (3.275 meters above sea level): with crampons they walk on a glacier and they climb the "Arrête rocheuse": then looking at the landscape they eat the famous "4.810" chocolates. On the next day Tiga meets Gérard Berrux , a farmer and also baker (Le pain de Chibon) : Tiga helps Gérard to prepare the breads that they will deliver at Les Houches: besides Gérard has a Herens breed cow and on a meadow some farmers have brought their Herens cows for the traditional Herens cows fight.After that Tiga goes to the workshop "Couteau le Chamoniard" where Didier Simond and and his son Samien help Tiga to make her own knife.Then Tiga Tiga meets Pascal Brun, a helicopter pilot: they have a flight to the mountain refuge of Le Goûter (because Pascal has to deliver food for this place) and Tiga is received by Antoine Rattin and his wife Valérie for her stay in the mountain refuge. Besides we see zooms about the fauna (marmots, chamois, bearded vultures), about the architecture in Chamonix , about Jean-François and his guide Vincent Ravanel, about the composer André Manoukian, about the "Peloton Gendarmerie de Haute Montagne" of Chamonix, about the Japanese mountain climbers who who decided to stay in Chamonix, about the ultra-trail of the Mont-Blanc and about the highliners in Chamonix.—zutterjp48
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