The Limited Times

Now you can see non-English news...

"Walking, a snub to the multitude of technological demands"

2022-08-05T17:30:48.502Z


INTERVIEW – The explorer and writer Constantin de Slizewicz, who organizes itinerant stays, independently with mules, in the Queyras massif, sees the walker as a resistant.


Author of

Drunk from China.

Voyages to the heart of the Empire

(Perrin), Constantin de Slizewicz traveled the roads of the Middle Kingdom for ten years and organized itinerant stays, independently with mules, at the gates of Tibet.

Today, with his friend Luc Richard and their Équipée Liotard, he has duplicated his concept in the Queyras massif (Hautes-Alpes).

Read also

Hiking, a new French passion

LE FIGARO.

- More and more French people are taking to walking.

How can this phenomenon be explained?

Constantin DE SLIZEWICZ.

-

After going through this century, its excesses of technology and ecological destruction, we quickly forget that the primary dimension of man is to walk.

The bird flies, the fish swims, the man walks!

He has been doing this exercise since his origin, it is his native nudity.

Walking is a snub to the multitude of technological demands that lead us into an endless race, this common feeling of no longer having time for oneself and of constantly running after an existence that escapes us.

Live…

This article is for subscribers only.

You have 79% left to discover.

Cultivating your freedom is cultivating your curiosity.

Subscription without obligation

€0.99 THE FIRST MONTH

Already subscribed?

Login

Source: lefigaro

All news articles on 2022-08-05

You may like

News/Politics 2024-02-20T17:12:06.139Z

Trends 24h

News/Politics 2024-03-28T06:04:53.137Z

Latest

© Communities 2019 - Privacy

The information on this site is from external sources that are not under our control.
The inclusion of any links does not necessarily imply a recommendation or endorse the views expressed within them.