Breathtaking La Plagne: why the French Alps are not just for Christmas

The beautiful La Plagne resort offers more than simply winter skiing, with year-round pleasures including hiking, rafting and e-biking

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For someone more accustomed to lazing beside a pool in August and September, the prospect of spending late summer days last year adventuring in the French Alps was as foreign as it was intriguing.

La Plagne - a resort in the French Alps with an endearing logo of a red pom-pom hat atop a smiley face - comprises a web of villages lying from 1,250 metres up to 3,250 metres above sea level, on the Bellecote Glacier. In winter, the “altitude sites” are ski-in, ski-out villages made up of clusters of charming wooden Alpine structures designed by architect Michel Bezancon in the 1970s, plus the three older, family-focused villages of Plagne-Montalbert, Montchavin-La Plagne and Champagny-en-Vanoise. They are all part of Paradiski, the world’s second largest ski region.

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