It’s not a day for looking down, what with the hot air balloon festival on in Praz sur Arly this weekend. Saturday seemed to be superb flying conditions as they all floated over Mont Blanc. Later in the day, one lone balloon appeared worringly low over Combloux village centre.

If you keep looking up, you start to notice other things, like the way snow curls over the edge of roofs before it eventually gets too heavy and falls off. You wouldn’t want to be standing beneath when that happened.

You don’t often see the bottom of snowboards and skis either unless you look up while standing under a chairlift…