The feminist adventurer Marie Albert has produced a world tour in freighters, several Tours de France on foot to denounce sexist violence and many solo hikes in France and Spain. In Solo hike. The feminist guide (Gallimard, 19.90 euros, 144 pages), she shares her practical advice to hike or bivouac in nature when you are a minorized woman or person.
In your work, you assure that there is a much safer place than the house: the forest. However, walking or sleeping alone in the forest can, a priori, seem frightening …
Indeed, I am often asked if I am not afraid of being raped or murdered. At the start, I was terrorized, like everyone else because I was bottled to the big bad wolf. But we know that the place where women undergo the most violence is actually the home. In the forest, at night, there is no one. As for animals, they generally avoid humans. I was just once because I had left food outside my tent and a fox had devoured it!
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