Chronicles from above: a winter in La Pesse (Jura) | Sunday February 16 at 12.50 p.m. on France 3

La Pesse is a really small city within the Jura with 340 inhabitants, perched excessive up in a blanket of snow for a lot of winter. Right here, it’s good to dwell so long as you just like the chilly and that you’re delicate to mutual assist … As a result of right here to dwell in a harsh local weather, it’s essential to know tips on how to assist one another. It’s on this heat environment that identities flourish and passions flourish. Katia Chapoutier has chosen a number of.

Julien is an animal photographer. Very younger, at CP he says, he favored to observe to shock deer. Logically, he took images to share and immortalize his encounters with wildlife. He will be looking out for hours on finish to have the possibility to see a tichodrome, this little grey fowl with scarlet spots on the wings. “In 2 autumns and a pair of winters, I accumulate 250 hours of alert. In a wait of three to four hours, if I see him for three minutes, I’m blissful however it’s important to settle for to not see something“At different instances, he watches the stainless panorama to see the tip of a ermine's black tail with the identical endurance.

Martine welcomes friends in considerably particular houses, the Coinchet lodges 1200 meters above sea degree within the coronary heart of the Haut-Jura regional park. Canadian tents, trailers, perched or trapper cabins, all personalised with a excessive degree of service. Neglect the sleeping bag and the air mattress, you’ll sleep in an actual mattress. She delivers breakfast by sleigh every morning. As well as, Martine raises llamas, superbrushers based on her. “We should monitor them, the females being fertilizable all 12 months spherical, we should isolate the male”.

Robert is a tavaillonneur. He hopes that his 15 and a half 12 months outdated son Beranger will resume his exercise. The tavaillon, this cut up picket tile, serves as a coating on roofs and facades. It’s also the specialty of Loïc, educated by Robert who logically will type Béranger. The circle is full.

Daniel is Swiss. He moved to La Pesse to develop his exercise. He’s a musher and organizes hikes for vacationers on the Hautes-Combes plateau, a perfect setting for working towards. He lives together with his canines and pampers them. He even invented a coat for them. “I used to be bored with seeing all of them moist on an expedition. There they’re dry“.

Chronicles from above: a winter in La Pesse (Jura) – Sunday February 16 at 12.50 p.m. on France three Auvergne Rhône-Alpes.

Realization: Katia Chapoutier
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