Hiking with Montagnes et Sciences

On Sunday June 19, Léna Gruas, post-doctoral researcher at the Université Savoie-Mont-Blanc, will accompany the hike entitled “Les chamois détestent la rando! Cohabitation sport/faune sauvage” in the Bauges massif as part of the Randos Montagnes et Sciences program.

A sports sociologist specializing in issues of cohabitation with wildlife in mountain areas, she recently defended her thesis “Côtoyer les sommets, coexister avec l’animal sauvage. Contribution à la sociologie des pratiques sportives en milieu naturel”, supervised by Clémence Perrin-Malterre of the Environnement, dynamiques et territoires de montagne (Edytem) laboratory and Anne Loison of the Laboratoire d’écologie alpine (Leca). On the same theme, Léna Gruas took part in the Humani project and is involved in the Comhunenvi program within Labex ITTEM. She will also be taking part in a round-table discussion on May 12 at the national seminar“Sports de nature : éducation à l’environnement et transition écologique”, to be held at the Creps de Vallon-Pont-d’Arc, in Ardèche.

The hike she will be leading with Jacques Mourey – geographer at the University of Lausanne (Cirm) and mountain guide – will focus on the coexistence of recreational activities and mountain ungulates in the Bauges National Hunting and Wildlife Reserve over the past fifteen years. ” Our research projects combine animal and human perspectives to compare actual and perceived disturbance. We invite you to discover how mountain sports enthusiasts perceive wildlife and disturbance as part of their recreational activities “, explains Léna Gruas.

Randos Montagnes et Sciences has been running for three years. “Accessible to the general public, they enable visitors to discover the mountains through the eyes of passionate experts who are keen to share their experiences in relation to scientific or cultural issues. These hikes are a real hit, with an average of 10 to 20 people per outing,” explains Eric Larose, president of the Montagnes et Sciences association and a researcher at the Institut des Sciences de la Terre on the Grenoble campus.

In 2022, the Montagnes et Sciences association is organizing ten themed hikes from May to September. This year’s themes include lynx in the Chartreuse, glaciers on the Meije, quarries in the Vercors, rocky glaciers in the Ecrins, mountain plants and stress management, wolves and vultures in the Oisans, astronomy in the Hautes-Alpes and hydroelectricity on the heights of the Grand Maison dam.

Information and registration on the Montagnes et Sciences website.

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