Servoz station

Servoz (Franco-Provençal pronunciation: [ˈsɛr.vo]) is a commune in the Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France. Servoz has a railway station on the Saint-Gervais–Vallorcine railway and the section between Les Houches and Servoz holds the world record gradient for an adhesion railway at a 9% gradient over a distance of 2,000 m (6,562 ft).

Vaudagne station (French: Gare de Vaudagne) is a railway station in the commune of Les Houches, in the French department of Haute-Savoie. It is located on the 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) gauge Saint-Gervais–Vallorcine line of SNCF.

L’École de Physique des Houches (the Physics School of Les Houches) was founded in 1951 by a young French scientist, Cécile DeWitt-Morette. Historically the first lessons were given in 1951 by Léon Van Hove on quantum mechanics. The conditions were very spartan with the lessons lasting eight weeks in alpine chalets devoid of all comforts, a few kilometers from the village of Les Houches. Soon, the school rapidly attracted the greatest names of modern physics, such as Enrico Fermi, Wolfgang Pauli, Murray Gell-Mann and John Bardeen amongst others. The young students, then unknown, included such future scientists as Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, Georges Charpak, and Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, all future winners of the Nobel prize for Physics, as well as mathematician Alain Connes, future winner of the Fields medal.

Lac Vert is a lake in the municipality of Passy, Haute-Savoie, France.

The Égratz Viaduct is a curved concrete box girder bridge in south-east France, in the French Alps, near Switzerland and Italy. The bridge is almost one mile long.

Viaduc-Sainte-Marie station (French: Gare du Viaduc-Sainte-Marie) is a railway station in the commune of Les Houches, in the French department of Haute-Savoie. It is located on the 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) gauge Saint-Gervais–Vallorcine line of SNCF.

Chedde station (French: Gare de Chedde) is a railway station in the commune of Passy, in the French department of Haute-Savoie. It is located on the 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) gauge Saint-Gervais–Vallorcine line of SNCF.

Les Houches station (French: Gare des Houches) is a railway station in the commune of Les Houches, in the French department of Haute-Savoie. It is located on the 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) gauge Saint-Gervais–Vallorcine line of SNCF.

Lac de l'Aiguillette is a lake in Haute-Savoie, France.

Lac de Pormenaz is an alpine lake in the Passy National Nature Preserve (Réserve naturelle nationale de Passy) of the Haute-Savoie department of France. Its surface area of 4.4 ha is at an elevation of 1945 m. The lake can be reached by foot from the village of Plaine Joux above Servoz.

Les Houches (French pronunciation: ​[le.z‿uʃ]) is a commune in the Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of Eastern France. In 2017, it had a population of 2,943.

Saint-Gervais-les-Bains (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ ʒɛʁvɛ le bɛ̃]) is a commune in the Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, southeastern France. The village is best known for tourism and has been a popular holiday destination since the early 1900s. It has 445 km (277 mi) of pistes, the third largest domain exclusively in France, and is one of the least busy ski areas of its size. In 1892, two hundred people were killed when a water pocket in a glacier above the town suddenly burst open and caused flooding.