They are often the first to encounter plastic waste in the wild on their favorite playgrounds. From the oceans to the mountains, adventurers of the extreme see the degradation and pollution of the fragile ecosystems in which they live. So much so that scientists have shown that fine particles of plastic can be found in snowfall over the Alps and Antarctica.
It is to denounce and above all to raise awareness of the cause that some of them, including the mega star of the trail Kilian Jornet and the Olympic skicross champion, Jean-Frédéric Chapuis have agreed to pose voluntarily in photos in a world saturated with waste. plastics, namely a recycling center for the Sclavo Environment group in Fréjus (Var).
The first image is there to denounce and the second to signify that the solution goes through selective sorting. The underlying idea was to mean for these athletes that seas like mountains or meadows could soon become impassable. Even photographer Dom Daher, more used to snow-covered slopes, had to comply with the conditions of this very special shoot.
"I want to believe it"
Kilian Jornet whose ecological commitment does not date from today finds himself climbing a mountain of used tires. The Catalan recognizes that his multiple journeys by plane to go before to the competitions were "a real heresy". The extraordinary athlete, very young father, is now trying to be in line with his precepts.
As for his Swedish wife, Emelie Forsberg, a young mother who lives almost in self-sufficiency in Norway on a farm on the edge of the Fjords, she climbs plastic bundles with her hiking skis.
"I see that the glaciers are melting, and that it has accelerated over the past 5 years," says skier Jean-Frédéric Chapuis to the site neufdixième.com. Let people keep throwing their butts off the top of the chairlifts in the winter, since when I go for a walk in the summer, I can fill a trash bag with it. Despite everything, I want to believe it. "