Opening dates : Summer 2025 - 24 may to 2 november

Schools

Teachers, school managers, students, throughout the school year our group service offers you to facilitate your cogwheel train excursion and to the Mer de Glace as a support for your pedagogical day!

There are many topics and themes to offer your pupils, middle school, high school or university students a memorable day rich in learning!

  • The history of the Montenvers site, and the fascinating history of the cogwheel train
  • The panorama: discovery of the mythical summit of the Mont-Blanc massif and mountaineering (the Drus, the Grandes Jorasses) and the Mer de Glace (the largest glacier in the French Alps, formed by the junction of the Leschaux and Tacul glaciers)
  • Climate change : The site is, in spite of itself, the witness and the place perfectly adapted to the effects of climate change and visit of the glaciorium.
  • ect..

Your benefits

Dedicated rates, heavily discounted, by level of education (Primary / Middle School / High School and Students)

1 rate identical to that of young people for accompanying persons!

Reservation of departure time and seats on the train

On the day of your visit, your tickets are prepared and waiting for you!

Skip-the-line access for skip-the-line boarding!

Our services +

Follow-up of your account and your personalized files

Zero administrative fees!

Optional service

Benefit from the services of a tour guide for a guided excursion (reading the landscape, impact of climate change on glaciers) for an even richer experience!

Contact us!

Do not hesitate to contact us by sending your requests via the form below.

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Opening dates : Summer 2025 - 24 may to 2 november

Horaires d'ouverture

Du 1er au 14 septembre

Ouverture tous les jours de 8h30 à 17h00
Départ du 1er train : 8h30
Dernière montée : 16h30
Dernière descente : 17h00
Dernier départ de Chamonix pour visiter la grotte de glace : 15h00.

Un train toutes les heures ou toutes les 30, ou 20 minutes, selon affluence.
Départ 9h00 optionnel – selon affluence

Accès suspendu momentanément aux fauteuils roulants PMR
En raison d’un problème technique affectant les rampes d’accès dans le train du Montenvers : l’embarquement des fauteuils roulants (manuels et électriques) est temporairement suspendu jusqu’à nouvel ordre.

Saturday 21st June

The Montenvers train celebrates music

🪘Musical entertainment at Chamonix station from 3:00 to 3:30 p.m.: Batucada komandobidon
🎸Musical entertainment at Montenvers, on the Panoramic terrace, from 3:30 to 6:15 p.m.: live music by Marco Klarck and batucada komandobidon
👉 Fête de la musique special offer: Take advantage of the free train from 3:20 p.m. to Montenvers (last train at 5:30 p.m. and last train back at 7:00 p.m. from Montenvers).

Opening hours

From 01/09/2025 to 14/09/2025
Open every day from 8.30 to 5.00 pm

 
 

Last ascent

 4.30 pm

Last descent

5.00 pm

Last departure from Chamonix
to visit the ice cave

3.00 pm

A train every hour or every 30 – or 20 – minutes depending on demand.
Departure 9.00 am optional – depending on numbers

Access temporarily suspended for wheelchairs
Due to a technical problem affecting the access ramps on the Montenvers train, boarding for wheelchairs (manual and electric) is temporarily suspended until further notice.