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Believe they're also known as altiports; Courchevel is another. You need special training to be able to land there.

Yeah, seems there are a number of them in the French Alps

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altiport

Ski resort, IIRC. Was in one of the Bond movies (with snow). Probably others. Looks scarier than it is (at least relative to other scary airstrips in worse place - a few high in the Himalayas come to mind).

Edit - hmmm, looks like I'm thinking of another mountain top airport in the French mountains.

The Bond one is Courchevel (with runway designation 22, not 09) and a bit bigger from what this image looks like. Source: I've taken a stupid video there: https://redd.it/v7vkx6 :-)

I actually think the Bond one is the Pyrenees one, they even renamed it to 007 airport or something like that. It’s from Tomorrow Never Dies.

Wow. You're totally correct. Thank you. I must have picked up the wrong fact a while ago.

I also got this one as the 2nd airport.. quite a surprise