How I beat France’s 40°C heatwaves

How I beat France’s 40°C heatwaves

For the first time this summer, I wasn’t sweating. I watched wisps of cloud moving like smoke over the surrounding mountains from the balcony of my chalet, the wool jumper against my skin so much more pleasant than beads of perspiration or landing mosquitos. Most of France has been steam-cooked in heatwave after heatwave for the past few months, but the Alps remain deliciously temperate.Deliciously crowd-free, too. Les Gets is hardly under-the-r…