THE TEAM

Where are you from?
I was born and raised in Siberia, near the Altai Mountains, where winters are very cold, and summers are warm. I started hiking in the mountains at the age of 11, first with a photography club and then with a tourism club. My love for the mountains is eternal!

What is your role in the Tarentaise Tours agency?
The Tarentaise Tours agency is both a travel agency, a guides' office, and a shop, the TT-SHOP, a small team attentive to your needs. As the Sales and Operations Manager, I ensure the organization and smooth running of your activities, stays, and seminars—so many enriching, exciting, and varied missions in my daily work. I have the pleasure of welcoming you to our shop and organizing your adventure projects.

Your most beautiful memory in the region?
I started skiing very late, so my first sensations of skiing downhill were the most intense!

Where are you from?
I'm from the South of France, more precisely from Carcassonne.

What is your role in the Tarentaise Tours agency?
I am in the marketing department, that is to say that I manage graphic creations and communications on our various media: flyers, posters, website... And I make the connection between you and Tarentaise Tours via our social networks!

Your most beautiful experience?
My first hike in Tarentaise, surrounded by marmots!

Where are you from?
I come from the south of Lyon, in the countryside. I was adopted by La Tarentaise in 2008 when I met my husband at the foot of via cordata du Crot, in Ste Foy Tarentaise.

What is your role in the Tarentaise Tours agency?
I am the manager of Tarentaise Tours. My role is quite broad and covers practically all areas of a company like Tarentaise Tours: quotes, costing, customer relations, but also administration, budget and communication. I am not in charge of a specific file. My role is more of a supervisor and organizer of the team's work and to bring my experience as much as possible and support my colleagues so that we can offer unique experiences to our customers.

Your most beautiful experience?
I'm really a fan of being able to ski right to my doorstep, skiing off-piste from Ste Foy or even from Italy, in wild and isolated areas, without meeting anyone, in a grandiose setting!

Where are you from?
From the mountains! I was born in Bourg-Saint-Maurice and grew up in Sainte-Foy.

Why did you choose this job?
For sharing my passion, for the contact with people, allowing them to reach their dreams, and sometimes helping them to go beyond their limits! And of course, spending time in the mountains and living different experiences.

What are your favorite specialties/activities?
I love snow! Sliding through untouched powder, making the first tracks on ski touring, ski trips to discover new routes… Mountaineering too! Climb the peaks, and scale the ridges. And outdoor activities in all their forms: walking, running on trails, mountain biking...

Your most beautiful experience?
There's a lot! I would say the arrival at the top of Mont Blanc, at sunrise, with my client for whom it was the dream of a lifetime... It was a great moment of emotion and happiness!

Where are you from?
I am originally from Chartreuse, around Grenoble.

Why did you choose this job?
I've always loved skiing and climbing since I was very young (father guide and mountaineer parents) and I wanted to share this passion. Through my job, I would like to better educate people about the mountains, the mountain "way of life", and about the crazy activities that our environment offers.

What are your specialties / favorite activities?
My favorite activities are off-piste skiing, cross-country skiing, mountaineering and multi-pitch climbing. I'm the most comfortable in ski touring.

Your most beautiful memory?
With friends, the descent of the Llaima volcano on skis in the Andes in Chile.
With clients, it's the organization of a full week of ski touring around Vallouise (Hautes Alpes), a place that I particularly like

Where are you from?
Native of Vercors, I grew up in Bourg St Maurice.

Why did you choose this job?
For the joy of sharing a passion and discovering wild and magnificent places.

What are your specialties / favorite activities?
Off-piste skiing, climbing and canyoning! In other words: fun, sun and escape!

Your most beautiful memory?
A descent of the Ruitor, alone in the world, without a trace, with 50 cm of powder and under an azure blue sky... What else?

Where are you from?
I was born in Lyon.

Why did you choose this job?
I learned skiing at the age of 3 with my father, then snowboarding 10 years later. I fell in love with it and therefore decided to get into ski coaching. I have been teaching skiing all over the Tarentaise for 20 years now.

What are your specialties / favorite activities?
Skiing and snowboarding, with a soft spot for the latter.

Your most beautiful memory?
A trip to Iceland with friends, crazy conditions and crazy routes.

Where are you from?
Originally from Seine-et-Marne, I have lived in the valley since 1991.

Why did you choose this job?
For the love of skiing and the mountains and for fun!

What are your specialties / favorite activities?
I’m specialized in the practice and teaching of skiing, snowboarding and telemark, both off-piste and on-piste, with a preference for ski touring in recent years.

Your most beautiful memory?
A hike with clients in Sainte-Foy during the 2021 season, when all the ski lifts were closed. The mountain was deserted and majestic: we skied Col Granier on incredible clear snow!

Where are you from?
I'm originally from the Paris suburbs and have been living in the Northern Alps since 2010.

Why did you choose this job?
Out of a passion for the mountains and all the stars they light up in people's eyes!

What are your specialties / favorite activities?
As a climbing/canyoning instructor in the summer and a ski instructor in the winter, I'm particularly interested in beginners and children. I love accompanying skiers and climbers as they start out, and when the flame is passed on then I'm the happiest.

Your most beautiful memory?
Climbing: reaching the summit of Totem Pole in Australia (Tasmania) or sleeping in the middle of the mythical 'The Nose' route on El Capitan (US). Skiing: My students' first turns on the slopes with a smile from ear to ear.