Snow on the slopes of Mont Blanc is the best Chamonix has seen in years - but few Brits will enjoy it.
Alison Hands and her family were driving down from Calais on Thursday as they heard the news. "Being here makes it feel like a normal Christmas again because I've come every year since I was born - apart from the last one," says her eight-year-old son Moss.
Dave Searle works with the British Ski Guide association in Chamonix, and cancellations have flooded in. France's confirmed Omicron cases are a fraction of those in the UK, though French scientists do far less genetic sequencing of new variants than their British counterparts. And intensive care units are once again filling up fast here.
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