Our little family consists of Florence, 29, Project manager, Sylvain, 35, mountain guide, ski patroller and Amber, 5, Schoolgirl.
6 years, we live in small mountain villages, seasonal or permanent. We now live in the Valley of Maurienne Villards. Attached to the mountain, its peoples, its cultures, its natural environments and landscapes, we live in harmony. The hiking and other outdoor sports allow us to go découvrir.Par the places where we live and our respective experience, we have seen the negative effects of mass tourism in the mountains, both on culture as on the environment. This observation is born from our draft discover all men and mountain land preserved without affecting their balance.
This project, what is it?
On foot and local transportation, we will form a loop in northern India, from 24/06/09 until 23/09/2009, which takes us from Leh, Ladakh's capital, Delhi. After several days of acclimatization to altitude in Leh, we walked through the Zanskar "mineral" on nearly 300 km. Then, in the Spiti valley lake Tso Kar we go through our other 300 km trek in the highlands of Rupshu. High passes in wide valleys, we lurching between 3200 m and 5730 m.
In villages "Doks" (farmhouses), or monasteries in nomad camps, we go, off the beaten usual, to meet the peoples living there. Everything will then excuse to linger a moment or more: some of the children with games, a discussion in multiple language, an invitation ... Curious, we do not want to be mere consumers of space, but to take part in the daily activities of families. We will leave time for exchange and sharing, to enable the two cultures to learn a lot from each other. The adventure is thought to be able to live it every three, not one or even two. We will therefore be accompanied by their horses and mule. Repeatedly, we change our travel companions, with the aim of promoting local financial benefits. We will have the opportunity to share our journey together with their valleys connoisseurs!
We feed the blog of stories, photos, videos, and we enjoy sharing our impressions with you ... These moments put together, illustrate our history "shared" in both family and with these other mountain people.
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