Blog

Welcome to our blog

This blog was created to help our students and visitors in their quest to learn new languages and to share our passion for the mountains. If you like our posts, feel free to share them with your friends so we can help others to learn new languages and discover what Chamonix has to offer.
Combine your french studies at Insted Chamonix with trail running

Perfect season for trail running in Chamonix

 | Chamonix
  Day by day now, the valley of Chamonix is turning into a pallet of beautiful autumn colors. The fresh, crispy mornings and sunny days with an average temperature of 15-20 degrees characterizes this perfect season for trail running. This photo is from local mountain guides and skiers Stian Hagen and Asmus Norreslet, on an […] Read more

language courses in Chamonix, French, English, Italian, Spanish and Russian

New website, new look but same quality

 | Insted
The website is launched The quality of our language courses is very important to us. Our teachers are french native and special trained to teach non-french students in language learning. The rest of our team at the school can speak 7 languages combined, and stand ready to help you out whenever needed. Throughout the summer […] Read more

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We welcome Nordic skibums to Chamonix

 | Insted
Nordic skibums is a Facebook group that started 2011 by people with the passion and interests of the mountains. As an addition to facebook, Nordic skibums has recently launched a new web shop where you can buy and design cool items and take part of the Nordic skibums community. Insted and Nordic skibums will become […] Read more

Active education is working with Insted in Chamonix

Active Education in Chamonix

 | Insted
Well done, the film looks great! Active education has been using our classrooms in Chamonix for several years and we are super happy that they are coming this winter as well. They have released a cool video that we think shows how a season in Chamonix could look like, take a look!   Read more

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Ultra-Trail du Mont Blanc

 | Chamonix
Ultra-Trail du Mont Blanc Amazing race in the mountians Have you ever heard about a running competition that’s four times longer than a marathon and has a vertical ascent of 9600m ? Well, now you have. It is called Ultra-Trail du Mont Blanc and is one of the most famous “ultra trail-running event” in the world and […] Read more

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How to get to Chamonix

How to get to Chamonix? There are many ways to get to Chamonix and we will list the most common ways, hopefully it can help you out a bit. Fly to Chamonix Geneva airport Geneva airport is the most popular airport and it is only one hour drive from Chamonix. There is several airlines going to Geneva […] Read more

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Checklist for Chamonix

 | Study languages
What should you bring to Chamonix? If it’s your first time going to Chamonix it can be tricky to know what to bring. We will try to help you out and tell you what we would bring, this doesn’t mean that you has to or that this checklist is all you need. Warm clothes – […] Read more