Odette Bernezat

Biography

Odette Bernezat was born in La Ciotat in 1941 and is a French guide and writer.

Odette met her husband Jean-Louis in the early sixties. Passionate about the mountains, Odette and Jean-Louis met in Chamonix. He, originally from Valence, was a high mountain guide. She studied natural sciences to become a geologist. This girl from the South, born in La Ciotat, would eventually learn to ski and become a ski instructor. Both of them climbed the summits, “Bernouze” (as he was nicknamed) opening more than one route…

Then ski instructors in La Plagne, a trip allowed them to discover the Hoggar, the desert and the Tuaregs together in 1967. They founded the structure “Hommes et Montagnes” which allo...