author ofDrunk from China. Journeys to the Heart of the Empire (Perrin), Constantine de Slizewicz traveled the roads of the Middle Kingdom for ten years and organized tours, independently with mules, to the gates of Tibet. Today, with his friend Luc Richard and their Équipée Liotard, he replicated his concept in the Queiras massif (Hautes-Alpes).
LE FIGARO. – More and more French people are starting to walk. How to explain this phenomenon?
Constantine DE SLIZEVITZ. – After going through this century, with its technological excesses and ecological destruction, we quickly forget that the main measure of man is to walk. A bird flies, a fish swims, a man walks. He has been doing this exercise since his birth, it is his native nudity. Walking rejects the many technological demands that lead us to an endless race, this habitual feeling of no longer having time for ourselves and constantly running after an existence that has escaped us…
Source: Le Figaro
