Nature and then Man have shaped our mountains the way they are today giving each one its specific personnality.
There are trends that you will find everywhere and other that are endemic.
This is true for fauna, flora but also for traditionnal human activities and at one stage all of these reached a magnificent balance.
There is a time for mere physical activity that it has its pleasures and rewards.
I have done it so often that I wouldn’t tell the truth if I looked down on it.
Yet after a while and because while hiking, even at great speed, one comes across so many questions, You have to look in a different way. Understanding how it all works, or sometimes doesn’t, together.
Discovering why a chalet is built in such a way, what made monks choose that precise remote place, where white alpine hares hide and how wood ants societies are organized.
At the same time,savouring a tasty goat cheese while you are sitting opposite Mont-Blanc or a herd of male ibex seems more and more like real life to me.
This is why I have developped this series of hikes that combine with the life in the montains in all its various aspects because first they cannot be separated and second because they offer various pleasures it would be foolish to ignore.
Not only walking is based in Annecy in France, near Mont-Blanc, Geneva in the heart of the Alps.