If we’ve learned anything over the millennia, it has to be that the human spirit has an innate and perpetual quest for achievement. We rose from our knuckles to walk on two feet. We discovered how to make fire and how the wheel could ease our burdens. Eventually, we would build incredible machines that would make the horse obsolete and take to the skies like birds.
For all of those leaps forward there seemed to be no question as to why we would want to do those things. As for carving a small airport out of the side of the French Alps in an impossibly difficult place to operate aerial machinery - we can only scratch our heads and say “because we can!” And thus was born Courchevel ‘altiport’ in the rugged skiing landscape of the rich and famous.
Courchevel is a popular winter destination for skiers, but the summer months offer stunning vistas as well. France VFR’s ‘Alpes du Nord’ scenery package is an incredible complement to the LLH Courchevel scenery. Here we are departing Courchevel - turning towards Bozel.
Originally constructed during World War Two, Courchevel airport has evolved into one of the most unique airfields in existence. Though it can’t claim to be the highest, or the shortest, or the most rugged - it wades amon…
