Alpe d'Huez has excellent skiing rising to around 10,000ft on the Sarenne glacier if you take the Pic Blanc cable car or Marmottes gondola - which is just 300ft shy of La Plagne's glacial peak and ...

BOASTING 300 days of sunshine a year, it's no wonder that Alpe d'Huez in the central French Alps is known as the 'Island of Sunshine'.

Travel; The piste de resistance BOASTING 300 days of sunshine a year, it’s no wonder that Alpe d’Huez in the central French Alps is known as the ‘Island of Sunshine’.