Charlotte Martin 🇫🇷

Former trail runner, the mountains have been a source of calm for Charlotte and allowed her to have a different approach to sports. After a long battle with anorexia, she stopped competing and discovered other sports: mountaineering, paragliding, skiing, and climbing.

These sports allow her to be in the environment she loves most: nature. As a photographer and videographer, she enjoys capturing memories to relive a great adventure, but also to showcase solutions for the climate and biodiversity.

With the Rise – Our World Heritage foundation, she creates, with Nicolas and the whole team, documentaries in which they search for solutions that are good for nature, the environment, and people, and that can be replicated worldwide.

When she’s not behind her camera, Charlotte loves adventures. Whether in the air, hanging from a rope, on two wheels, or with sneakers on her feet, she enjoys new challenges.

As you can tell, her time is well occupied.

Mountaineering

Climbing

Ski Snowboard

A quick word about the Rise – Our World Heritage foundation?

The goal of the foundation is to influence local and global decision-makers to implement innovative solutions to fight climate change and preserve biodiversity.

To do this, the foundation produces documentaries (the first episodes will be released at the end of the year) and other actions aimed at the general public such as serious games, photo exhibitions and white papers.

Link to the site:https://riseourworldheritage.org

Link to Instagram page:https://www.instagram.com/rise_our_world_heritage/

Link to Youtube channel:https://www.youtube.com/@riseourworldheritage

Your relationship with the mountain?

The mountains really helped me regain my footing when I was not doing well. They taught me to take my time, observe, and calm down. They also made me aware of the fragility of things, of life, of the importance of enjoying every moment, of savoring all the little victories. I have grown a lot through the various mountain outings. Like an introspection or a long meditation session, when I am in the mountains I feel like I am going on a journey both because of the beauty of nature and what is happening inside me.

Nature is incredible and we are incredibly lucky to be able to enjoy it so much. All of this makes you want to take care of it, raise awareness, and find solutions to address the challenges of today and tomorrow, to preserve this beautiful planet that gives us so much.

Your fondest memories in the mountains?

It's funny because every time I try to remember my most beautiful memories in the mountains, it's not necessarily great summits, but rather moments of sharing, strong emotions that come to me.

I remember a paragliding flight, where I flew over 3 massifs in the same day for the first time, I left the Vercors, then I flew over the Chartreuse and the Belledonne massif, I was so happy, it was magnificent, there were lots of clouds to surf on which made the flight even more magical.

I still remember a flight with friends from Mont Blanc du Tacul or a walking and flying adventure withNicholasto do several summits around the house in the same day to end with a last magical flight at sunset.

And then, there are gravel trips with our panniers to tackle the most legendary passes in the Alps.

I could talk for hours about mountain memories because there are too many and it's too hard to choose!

In gravel with Charlotte and Nicolas

Why the Lagoped Family?

We have been part of the Lagoped Family for almost 5 years now and we have eternal recognition for this brand with strong values which are completely in line with ours.

In addition to having real exchanges, real listening from the teams, respect for the environment and commitment to an ever fairer and more eco-responsible textile industry: the quality of the products is incredible, the after-sales service in in case of need for repair is ultra efficient.

We are proud and happy to be part of this beautiful family who has supported us in all our projects since the beginning!