The Lagoped Family

THE PORTRAITS

Here, Lagoped gives the floor to its best ambassadors: those who live close to the summits, on the oceans or along your favorite hiking trails. Those who choose to wear our products to respect Nature.

On track!

Keeper of the Drayères Refuge

Anne Debeaune

Welcome to the Refuge des Drayères! The Refuge des Drayères, an ideal base camp (altitude: 2180m), is located at the intersection of three important routes: to the south, the Clarée valley; to the northwest, the Rochilles (the meeting point of the Guisane valley via the Ponsonnière pass, Valloire...

Wildlife filmmaker

Baptiste Deturche 🇫🇷

Born and living in Haute-Savoie, I am a true enthusiast of the Northern Alps 😉 Having always lived surrounded by mountains and lulled by forest wanderings with my father, I started to take a serious interest in creatures, big and small, quite early on. I grew up in a very fertile environment re...

UIAGM Mountain Guide

Bastien Levy 🇫🇷

Born in Grenoble in Isère, the line of my horizon has always been drawn by mountains.If my studies as a construction engineer took me to more or less exotic destinations (Aix-en-Provence, Jamaica), my passion for climbing made me discover mountaineering and the world of high mountains in my early...

Photographer

Candice Debeaune 🇫🇷

My name is Candice and I am 27 years old. I was born near the Ecrins mountains, and was lucky to grow up surrounded by mountains and snow. I love it and I couldn't live without it. After studying sports, I turned to sports and mountain photography in Annecy. I have always shared the mountains...

Photographer & Videographer

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...

Nature sports project manager

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.

Mid-mountain guide

Corentin Esmieu 🇫🇷

I am originally from Briançon and have always been passionate about the mountains. The quest for a mythical animal quickly took up all my free time. The Wolf. My book "Wolf, a life in a pack in the Ecrins" won the Passy World Mountain Picture Book Award in 2020. As a professional wildli...

Activists

Noémie & Thomas - Ecotalk 🇫🇷

Noémie and Thomas are known under the name Ecotalk, their Instagram account on which they raise public awareness on the subjects of ecology and biodiversity.After two first documentaries "Facing the wolf" And "Into the hell of the orcs!", they decided to create a series of rep...

Mountaineer & journalist

Eliott Nicot 🇫🇷

Eliott Nicot joined the Lagoped Family during the writing of his film Désescalation, for which Lagoped is a partner.A military guide graduated from the EMHM in Chamonix, Eliott works as a journalist, videographer and photographer. Founder of a mountain film festival, he is passionate about mounta...

Polar educators

Sandy & Olivier - Explore Svalbard 🇨🇦 🇫🇷 🇲🇦

We believe the outdoors changes lives. We strive to connect and reconnect people with nature to learn to appreciate and love it.  Our motto:  explore/learn/change and share. Based on this belief and vision, we created Explore Svalbard in 2019.The Explore Svalbard project brings students and educa...

Mountain Guide

Florian Vallati 🇫🇷

I am 25 years old and I come from Briançon in the Hautes-Alpes.My first sliding steps led me to the highest Alpine summit.As a child, I practiced alpine skiing, even competing in the European Cup, and now, I have swapped alpine skis for touring skis and crampons.I am now based in Chamonix, but I ...

Skipper

Goulven Marie 🇫🇷

Goulven Marie is passionate about sailing, with a long history with the sea inherited from his Cape Horn ancestors and nurtured since childhood. His boat, a Class 40 No. 98, is a Tyker Evolution 2 designed by Verdie, optimized for performance and safety with modern and ergonomic equipment, while ...

First aid officer and mountain guide

Jean-Nicolas Louis

A police rescuer and mountain guide, Jean-Nicolas or Ptit Louch, has been a member of the Lagoped Family for many years. With his friend Jérôme, he is about to experience a great adventure in the Draa Valley.

Policeman and photographer

Jérôme Maltete

Police officer and photography enthusiast, Jérôme, has been a member of the Lagoped Family for many years. With his friend Jean-Nicolas, he is about to embark on a great adventure in the Drâa Valley.

Transalpin & Student Environmental Management and Engineering

JOE METZGER 🇫🇷

Joé is part of the Transalpins, a group of three agronomy and environment students who hold the mountain high in their hearts.For their gap year, they wenttook on the challenge of crossing the Alps on foot, from Nice to Ljubljana via Switzerland and ItalyThey didn't just want to hike, so they...

Transalpin & Student Agronomy, sectors and territories

JULES DERUELLE 🇫🇷

Jules is part of the Transalpins, a group of three agronomy and environment students who hold the mountains high in their hearts.For their gap year, they wenttook on the challenge of crossing the Alps on foot, from Nice to Ljubljana via Switzerland and ItalyThey didn't just want to hike, so t...

Photographer & Director

Julien Geay 🇫🇷

Julien Geay is a photographer and videographer, and passionate about mountaineering. He accompanies Lagoped during mountain events and contributes to numerous photos.

Adventurer - Line 2

Luc Demange 🇫🇷

Luc is part of the expedition Line 2, a team of adventure and ski enthusiasts, who are crossing the Pyrenees on ski touring in the winter of 2024/2025. Their common thread is to connect the Mediterranean to the Atlantic using the strength of their legs. They will leave with their skis and their t...

Adventurer - Line 2

Lucas Ruston 🇫🇷

Lucas is part of the expeditionLine 2, a team of adventure and ski enthusiasts, who are crossing the Pyrenees on ski touring in the winter of 2024/2025. Their common thread is to connect the Mediterranean to the Atlantic using the strength of their legs. They will leave with their skis and their ...

Natural Risk Engineer

Lucie Valentin 🇫🇷

I grew up in Provence, always drawn to outdoor activities. It was during my studies in Grenoble that I started frequenting the mountains regularly, then I settled in the Hautes-Alpes, between the Écrins and the Queyras. I was able to join the women's mountaineering group 05, which was a real ...

Wild/Polar Adventure Guide

Lucien Chaillot 🇫🇷

"I have always been in contact with nature. I had the chance to travel a lot during my childhood, particularly in very harsh territories. In the Jura, I trained in the management and protection of nature, and I acquired a solid ecological background, I obtained my Mountain Guide and Rescue T...

Mountain guide

Ludovic Erard 🇫🇷

Ludovic is part of theGrenoble guides officeand accompanies its clients from high mountains to mid-mountains (mountaineering, ski touring, snowshoeing, off-piste, climbing, etc.).

Co-guardian of the Ecrins Refuge

Maëlle Duvillard 🇫🇷

Freeride ski champion, Maëlle carries the mountain in her heart. In 2024, she joined Damien at the Écrins refuge and became co-guardian.

Teacher

Maria Skogeng 🇳🇴

Originally from the Lyngen Alps and now based in Tromsø, I am a Scandinavian adventurer with a passion for the great outdoors. A member of the Norwegian paragliding team Termikk & Rotor, I identify with this new generation of female mountaineers for whom the summit is never an end in itself, ...

Mountaineer

Martial Carbonnaux 🇫🇷

Martial, a great mountain and outdoor sports enthusiast, has been part of the Lagoped Family for more than three years now.His goal ? Climb the 82 peaks over 4000m in the Alps in order to raise funds For the Envol association which organizes adapted stays for seriously ill children.Meeting with t...

Outdoor Photographer

Michael Lafrasse 🇫🇷

Michaël is a lover of the outdoor world, and mainly of the mountains. A hunter of beautiful landscapes, he travels around Europe with his van when projects arise. Originally from Grenoble and a great traveler in his childhood, he ultimately stayed in his cozy nest, because, as he likes to point o...

Guide

Nacho Segorbe 🇪🇸

Nacho is a mountain and canyoning guide and joined the Lagoped Family in 2023.It welcomes you to Benasque in all seasons!Learn more

Professional highlighter

Nathan Paulin 🇫🇷

Nathan Paulin is a highliner, a modern tightrope walker, born in 1994 and living in the village of Reposoir in Haute-Savoie.Passionate about mountains since a young age, he started slacklining in 2011. Finding true inner peace in this activity combining intense concentration and body control, his...

Scientist

Nicolas Plain 🇫🇷

Nicolas is a scientist and paraglider pilot passionate about climate and biodiversity! It communicates on work in these areas and finds/disseminates concrete and local citizen solutions to create a more sustainable and fairer world!To do this, he uses his paraglider to gain height and discover th...

Photographer

Olivier Fichou 🇫🇷

Olivier began taking photos in 2015 during an expedition to the Arctic. Winner of international expedition grants and surrounded by multiple sponsors and partners, he sets out to open glacial routes with, for the first time, a reflex camera in his backpack. He won't come out anymore. After do...

Freerider

Paul de Pourtalès 🇫🇷🇨🇭🇬🇧

Paul de Pourtalès is a new generation freeride skier. Recovering from a serious injury at the age of 18, he understands the importance of longevity for an athlete and decides to build the rest of his career step by step, with a sustainable and thoughtful approach to sport and the mountains. Afte...

Adventurer - Line 2

Paul Romiee 🇫🇷

Paul is part of the expedition Line 2, a team of adventure and ski enthusiasts, who are crossing the Pyrenees on ski touring in the winter of 2024/2025. Their common thread is to connect the Mediterranean to the Atlantic using the strength of their legs. They will leave with their skis and their ...

Freerider & Aspiring Guide

Pilou Cret 🇫🇷

Pilou is one of the young talents of the Lagoped Family. At only 25 years old, he is about to become a guide and participated in writing a mountain film: La Grave BB.

Tracker Rescuer

Quentin Bochu 🇫🇷

Quentin is a skier and rescue skier based in the Maurienne valley. A member of the Lagoped Family for several years, he shares his outings with the brand and is always ready to test the Lagoped prototypes on the slopes of the valley.

Mountain guide and geologist

Raphaële Charvet

Raphaële is a mountain guide and geologist, two roles that she has worn with passion for over ten years.Driven since childhood by a deep need to "live up there," she naturally oriented her studies towards geology before settling in the mountains, where she specializes in natural risks (...

Explorer & Navigator

Sébastien Roubinet 🇫🇷

Adventurer, explorer and renowned navigator, first Frenchman to be awarded the Shakelton Award. An extraordinary experience that led him to cross unexplored areas by sail: first crossing from west to east of the maritime area bordering the Arctic Ocean by pure sail in 2007 with three crew members.