By Lucie Gosselin | Editor
Passionate journalist, for over 10 years, I have carried out investigations, portraits, reports or interviews.
This summer, when she hunted alone on the Col d’Arsine, between the Casset and Villar-d’Arêne, the former champion of windsurfing Nathalie Simon, 60, denounced on Instagram the behavior of certain families in the mountains. Irritated by parents leaving their children to run after the marmots, this spectacle has deeply annoyed it.
“I come across morons including kids …” Nathalie Simon disillusioned by the behavior of certain families in the mountains
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Difficult not to understand it. The sportswoman who suffers from a visible disease knows the mountain like his pocket. That day in hiking, she met hikers little attentive to the basic rules of respect for wildlife. Enthusiastic after a long lonely walk, Nathalie Simon confided to enjoy a suspended moment, far from the noise and mobile phones. But The enchantment was quickly disturbed by what it describes as “Raised “. Families whose children have embarked on the pursuit of marmots, “Parents say nothing “ she deplores.
Faced with this scene, she tried to Reasoning these distracted vacationersexplaining to them that making marmots run could upset their fragile heart rate and jeopardize their survival. In vain. Their behavior has not stopped. “There you go … it annoys me“she released in a video published on Tiktok and Instagram, leaving her exasperation bursting. Because for Nathalie Simon, the mountain is not a limits field, but a space of freedom and fragility which requires respect and conscience.
If his remarks may have seemed steep, they especially reflect the visceral attachment of the old Véliplanchist to respect for nature. Champion of France of windsurfing in 1986, the one who revealed that she had earned very well her life built her career on the effort, the discipline and the close link with the elements. Having become a host and columnist, she has never stopped promoting An active and outstanding art of livingwhether through his “Vitality stays“or his participations in major television programs as Intervilles.
The cry of the heart of a committed sportsman
His outspokenness is not new. For years, she has not hesitated to share her favorites like her annoyances, whether it is her sports courses, her trips or her hikes. In his eyes, the mountain, especially on The layout of the legendary Gr 54is not a simple summer attraction. With its passes to cross, its 184 kilometers and its 12,800 meters of elevation, this demanding path is not to be taken lightly.
Taking children assuming a pedagogy : teach them to observe without disturbing, walking with caution, admiring rather than disturbing. By recalling these principles, Nathalie Simon joins the fight of many mountain guides and enthusiasts who alert on The impact of poorly supervised tourism on wildlife. Marmots, like other species, live under increased pressure linked to the growing attendance of the trails. Gestures of harmless appearance – run, shout, continue – can have heavy consequences. It is this observation, painful for her, which pushed her to express himself without detour.
At 60, Nathalie Simon remains a personality appreciated by the general public. Married for more than forty years in Tanguy Dadon and mother of a girl, Nina, she combines family life, sports passions and personal commitments. His rant in the mountains testifies to an entire, passionate woman, who does not support indifference in the face of the beauty of nature. More than a simple annoyance, his message is a call for responsibility. Because in the great outdoors, as she likes to recall, everyone’s freedom must be accompanied by respect for what surrounds us.
