Linda Bortoletto, travel disciple
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Linda Bortoletto set out on her own on the Greater Patagonian Trail, one of the most difficult treks in the world that connects Santiago de Chile to southern Patagonia.
© Linda Bortoletto
By: Céline Develay Mazurelle
51 mins
If travel is a school, the French writer and adventurer is one of her most ardent pupils or disciples. Especially since she decided at 30 to give up a life and a tidy husband to go and see elsewhere if she is there
.
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Since Linda Bortoletto embarked on the paths of travel, all those she decided to take alone, from the Siberian countries to the vastness of Alaska that she crossed by bike, via Eastern Tibet, Zanskar or even in Israel, on foot from North to South over more than 1,100 kilometers, seem like lessons.
From these powerful trips back and forth between oneself and the world, this privilege and this daring that she took one day to make of her life a journey, Linda Bortoletto almost made it a religion, without dogmas or straitjackets, but with a few precepts all the same, imbued with Buddhist philosophy.
A bit of a guru, especially a shaman, the one who claims to be an explorer has been recounting, over the past few years, her multiple wanderings in testimonial books, where each time we imagine her as on a pilgrimage to a sacred temple of travel, nestled who knows in mountains, where the words truth and freedom would be written on the pediment.
His latest book “The Breath of the Andes”, an account of a rebirth in Chile after a sexual assault in Turkey, is no exception to the rule.
Except that the word equality should now be added to the pediment.
Find out more:
- On the path of
Linda Bortoletto
- On the
Greater Patagonian Trail
, an unmarked or maintained trek, created by the German Jan Dudek and which stretches for more than 3,000 kilometers
- On his latest book "
Le Souffle des Andes
", published by Éditions Payot.
Bibliography:
- “The breath of the Andes”, Linda Bortoletto, Éditions Payot.
2021
- "The path of the Angels.
My crossing of Israel on foot ”, Linda Bortoletto, Éditions Payot.
2019
- "Where I will continue to be."
The call of the wild lands ”, Linda Bortoletto, Éditions Le Passeur.
2016.
© Editions Payot
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