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The skiing

The Evasion Mont-Blanc; offers access to 3 ski areas, 113 ski lifts, 445km of slopes! The Evasion Mont-Blanc ski pass covers the large area of Saint Gervais, Saint Nicolas de Véroce, Megève and Combloux and also includes the slopes at les Contamines Montjoie and Les Houches, access by the Mont Blanc Tramway.

The main ski area of St-Gervais has 79 lifts on the slopes of Mont d'Arbois, and is linked with that of Megève. It has a terrain park with a half-pipe and is accessed by a fast, 20-person gondola from the edge of the resort to Le Bettex. The second stage goes up to St-Gervais 1850. This is a popular area and the entrance to Megève's pistes. Skiing on the Mont Blanc side of St-Gervais is served by the Tramway, a mountain railway that climbs slowly to the Col de Voza at 1,653m, where it links to the skiing above Les Houches. Hotel-Restaurant Igloo and the Terminus in Le Fayet area have good reputations for their cuisine.

St-Gervais has three nursery-slope lifts and two kindergartens. The ESF at St-Gervais and St Nicholas, and the ESI at Le Bettex, all offer standard lessons, as well as cross-country, slalom and telemark. The two local mountain-guiding companies are Compagnie des Guides de St-Gervais and Guides des Cimes, and both can organise heli-skiing.