Champéry is a municipality in the district of Monthey in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. At an altitude of approximately 1050 meters, at the base of the Dents du Midi and the Dents Blanches, at the end of the Vallée d’Illiez, sits the village of Champéry. This typical Swiss mountain village in the heart of the French-Swiss recreational area called Les Portes du Soleil is a holiday resort.

The Champéry – Planachaux cable-car (125 passengers) and the new 6 seater chairlift in Grand-Paradis takes skiers to an altitude of 2000 metres in just under 5 minutes, to the Portes du Soleil recreational area. With 194 ski lifts and over 650 km of ski slopes, this is the largest international ski area in the world.