Christelle Bakhache 🇫🇷

Christelle is in charge of the nature sports mission for Asters, the conservatory of natural spaces in Haute-Savoie. She works on reconciling sporting practices and protecting the department's natural spaces. She has been a member of the Lagoped Family for several years.

Hiking

Ski Snowboard

Mountaineering

Sail

Her job, her commitment

"To protect it, understand it, make it known or explore it, I travel the mountain seeking in my leisure time as in my work to reduce our impacts on the environment around us. Reconciling our sports with the nature in which we love practicing them is a mission that I take on with passion!”

Her projects in 2024

“A month of April without a car (successful) to explore the cliffs of the south east of France – text to come for the site.
A month of May in Scotland, between sea and stones, to discover the cliffs which plunge into the sea of the northern islands of Scotland. Uninhabited archipelagos and windswept coasts, without equipment, the rock in the wild.
A month of June in our Alps mountains, climbing locally.
A summer in Norway to discover the fjords and their big walls.
And more precisely ? I'll tell you when I've done it!!"

What Nature represents to her

"As soon as modern man enters it, it disappears...And yet, what if it could be otherwise? If we frequented nature by being part of it, by getting rid of artifices, by relieving ourselves of the superfluous, to keep only our sense and our desire to contemplate it delicately, silently, entering neutrally to become part of it again.

Why be a member of the Lagoped Family?

"Wearing the ptarmigan as an emblem is to remember and show on each outing that we are not alone. It is to come in peace in a living environment that we share with them. Lagoped carries for me this sense of belonging to a world that we, unfortunately, too often push to the margins. From then on, our activities become a way of getting rid of the dualism between nature and culture... as long as we respect its rules.