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Seven minutes from Nice to Monaco, a rescue service under the Matterhorn, and the last places in the Alps where a helicopter still drops skiers on a summit.
Seven minutes from Nice to Monaco, a rescue service under the Matterhorn, and the last places in the Alps where a helicopter still drops skiers on a summit.
Monaco has no runway, so the helicopter is the way in. From Nice Côte d'Azur the flight takes around 7 minutes, with around fifty return flights a day, flown by Monacair with Blade and by Heli Air Monaco. The heliport sits in Fontvieille, a few dozen meters from the Princess Grace Rose Garden and the Stade Louis II.
In Zermatt, Air Zermatt has flown helicopters under the Matterhorn since 1968, and pioneered rescue on a long line below the aircraft.
Heli-skiing began in Canada: Philippe Bieler was dropped from a Bell 47 near the Nechako reservoir in British Columbia in 1953, and Hans Gmoser founded Canadian Mountain Holidays in 1965.
In the Alps it has mostly closed. France banned it in 1985, and Germany bans it too. Switzerland still counts 15,000 heli-skiing flights a year to 42 landing sites, and Austria keeps a single landing site. The ski towns are in Skiing, and the airports for a jet in Private jets.
Monaco🇲🇨 Monaco
Zermatt🇨🇭 Switzerland
Courchevel🇫🇷 France
St. Moritz🇨🇭 Switzerland
Gstaad🇨🇭 Switzerland
Nice🇫🇷 FranceSources. Visit Monaco, arriving by helicopter · Air Zermatt · Heliskiing · Courchevel Altiport. Read October 2026. A record of places, houses and dates, published as research. Patrician.ch has no commercial relationship with any house named here. Photographs from Unsplash and Pexels, used under their licenses.
Around 7 minutes, to the heliport in Fontvieille.
There are around fifty return flights a day.
Since 1968, under the Matterhorn.
In Switzerland, with 15,000 flights a year to 42 landing sites, and at a single site in Austria.
France banned it in 1985, and Germany bans it.
In Canada.
Philippe Bieler was dropped from a helicopter in British Columbia in 1953, and Hans Gmoser founded Canadian Mountain Holidays in 1965.
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