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Editorial Reviews - Skiing in France From the Publisher Chapters: Ski Areas and Resorts in France, Chamonix, Alpe D'huez, Les Arcs, Flaine, Bessans, le Grand-Bornand, Avoriaz, Montgenèvre, Isola 2000, Tignes, Val Thorens, La Plagne, Les Gets, Risoul, Val-D'isère, Les Contamines-Montjoie, La Grave, Les Deux Alpes, Samoëns, Portes Du Soleil, Chastreix-Sancy, La Mongie, Megève, Sainte-Foy-Tarentaise, Grand Massif, French Alps, Courchevel, La Clusaz, Méribel, Les Houches, Les Trois Vallées, La Chavanette, Luz Ardiden, Argentière, Châtel, Haute-Savoie, Saint-Martin-De-Belleville, Plateau de Beille, Super Besse, Hautacam, Superbagnères, Chalmazel, Combloux, Serre Chevalier, La Rosière, Savoie, Tignes-Les-Brévières, La Tania, Arâches-La-Frasse, Espace Killy, Val Cenis, Gourette, Pra Loup, Auron, Les Sybelles, Orelle, Verchaix, Les Orres, Les Menuires, le Corbier, Montroc. Excerpt: Alpe d'Huez - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia L'Alpe d'Huez is one of the main mountains in the Tour de France. It has been a stage finish almost every year since 1976. The first was in 1952, won by Fausto Coppi. The race was brought to the mountain by Élie Wermelinger, the chief commissaire or referee. He drove his Dyna-Panhard car between snow banks that lined the road in March 1952, invited by a consortium of businesses who had opened hotels at the summit. Their leader was Georges Rajon, who ran the Hotel Christina. The ski station there opened in 1936 but the road had been widened even if it was still potholed. Wermelinger reported to the organiser, Jacques Goddet, and the Tour signed a contract with the businessmen to include the Alpe. It cost them the modern equivalent of 3,250. Coppi attacked six kilometres from the summit to rid himself of the French rider, Jean Robic. Coppi said: "I knew he was no longer there when I couldn't ... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=275506 Syn
