I enjoyed very much this journey in the Oisans: beautiful landscapes and nice encounters.
There are some interestings aspects of this region: the return of the young people to their home ( Jean-Baptiste Berlioux-, the paragliding instructor, Julien Richard,the grocer and mayor of Villard-Reculas, the employment in the tourism, the chalets instead of huge buildings, Nicolas Cordat (Besse-en-Oisans), the manager of the hotel-restaurant, the vegetables from the local vegetables garden), the ascent to the Alpe d'Huez (the road with 21 switchbacks, 1090 meters of heu¡ight difference, the record of Marco Panzani-37 minutes-, the amateur cyclist François Rahon, Joop Zootemelk and the Dutch cyclists climbing the "orange mountain"), the abandoned village of Dormillouse (Serge Baridon telling the story of the village-the Protestant familie-the exile to Algeria- the closing of the school in 1945, now the mountain cabin in which Serge receives the hikers), Michel Bissou-the sheep shepherd and his daughter Étoile (the alpine pasture and the transhumance), the National Park of the Écrins (Robert Chevalier the park ranger, Marion Didier the biolgogist tracking the American crayfishes, Christophe and Guillaume taking picture of the glacier), the first ascent of La Meije (A. Pierre Gaspard and various generations of guides, Colette Turc and the Musée "Mémoires d'Alpinisme", Gérad Turc, the guide, Brigitte Turc-Moreau , warden of the mountain refuge of the Chatelleret, Marie-Claude Turc and her restaurant "La Cordée" in Saint-Christophe-la-Ville,the promotion of the tourism in thge Oisans valleys).
I enjoyed the encounters of Jérôme with Jack Porte-the pilot- (the flight over the Oisans region), with Didier Gérard (the bison farm), with Dany Sautes (the ascent to the Alpe d'Huez in bicycle) , with Michèle and Jacques in the Lou Ratel bar in La grave, with Sandrine Buffin (the mountain excursion to the Lac Noir), with Véronique Riche ,the beekeeper at the Col du Lautaret, with Serge Aubert in the Alpine Garden, with Eric Loubie (the via ferrata ) and with Abdou Martin (the walk on the glacier de la Girose); nice encounters with very kind French men and women.