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Vue (d’)enSemble

ShadeS of loVe

present

- Glasses for Mustang -

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An expedition to protect the eyes of those living at

high altitudes

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An experience of human solidarityMay 2020

Distributing thousands of sunglasses to the Himalayan populations. That’s the project of Alice Lapujade, Yves Wansi and a highly motivated team. Alice suffers from the Usher disease and Yves is very visually impaired and they will take up this challenge!

A tribute to Jean Nerva

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Project Holders

The Team

Jürgen AltmannPRESIDENT OF

SHADES OF LOVE

Initiator and boss of a trendy bar, Aroma Kaffee in Munich, inveterate Globe Trotter, it is during a trip to Ladakh that Jürgen realizes that local people living at high altitudes are confronted with big vision problems due to the fact that they are not equipped with sunglasses to protect them from UV.He then collects from his customers, glasses in baskets attached to the ceiling of his bar and leaves Germany to distribute them by motor-cycle in the high mountains. Shortly afterwards, he created the association «Shades of Love - The Himalayan Eyewear Project» to develop this solidarity activity. He has been working with his friend Jean, which he met on a snowboar-ding race, for the last four years and has already performed a great trip in Royal Enfield on the Pakistan border to distribute glasses in Ladakh and Zanskar.

Yves WansiPRESIDENT OF

VUE (D’)ENSEMBLE

Yves WANSI is very visually impaired. He has a serious eye disease. Community Manager, video maker, entrepreneur, lecturer, he launches the project Vue (d ‘) Ensemble to federate the visually impaired, blind and people vho sees well around innovative and catchy concepts. An idea that he began to develop from 2009 and the as-sociation Vue (d ‘) ensemble was finally founded in 2012 thanks to extraordinary and decisive encounters. Sportive, he regularly performs run-ning, hiking, cycling and cross-country skiing. Yves is always looking for new ideas that contri-bute to the total emancipation of the visually impaired in different fields: culture, sport, em-ployment, adventure, fashion, etc. He is at the origin of the «Baikal Challenge», a crossing of the Siberian Lake by visually impaired and deaf, in pairs with able-bodied people.

Jean NervaFORMER SNOWBOARD

WORLD CHAMPION

Jean Nerva does not like biographies. Here is succinctly how he presents himself: «Terran of 57 years. Musik: 1987, first instrumental prize at the Jazz Festival in Vienna. Some beautiful perf in enduro (winner of several stages of the World Cup). Pioneer of snowboarding ... twice world champion of slalom (1988/1990). Cerebral and intraocular lymphoma recurring between 2011 and 2016. Ambassador in France of the Associa-tion Shade of Love founded by my friend Jürgen. Distribution of sunglasses to the populations of Ladakh and Zanskar. Distribution of sunglasses in Siberia during the «Baikal Challenge», a cros-sing of this mythical lake with visually impaired and deaf, accompanied by able-bodied people.

Stéphane BrunnerPRESIDENT OF

SOMEWHERE CLUB

Painter, photographer, businessman, inventor, Stéphane Brunner has a passion for great adven-tures: at 20 he accompanied an entomologist in Vietnam to hunt butterflies and fell in love with unusual trips. Later, he will run the planet on foot, horseback, canoe or bike. Since 2014, he has created with a friend an atypical club, Somewhere Club, which brings together film-makers, explorers, top athletes, scientists and various personalities from the world of culture and gastronomy. Together, all of these experts design exceptional travel experiences and work to produce scientific or exploratory missions in the most remote areas of the planet.

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tHe rest of tHe team

The Team

Bruno MathonPROFESSIONAL

PHOTOGRAPHER

Bruno Mathon studied philosophy and journalism by working on weekends as a freelancer in sports for the daily Ouest-France.After an internship at the agency Gamma, he launches freelance texts and photos for mainstream magazines (VSD, Great Reports, Le Figaro, Les Echos, The New Economist, Science & Life) and specialized (Photo Answers, Video Camera, Moto-Journal, Playboy ...).Then comes the web, of which he is one of the pioneers in content, with editorial positions (The Media Island, The European) and editorial leader (World Online).Since 2004, when he adopted the first digital SLRs, his daily life is punctuated by video and photography for big companies.Training is also part of his activities: since 2014 he collaborates with photo travel agencies for the animation of internships and trips.

Bernard FontanilleDOCTOR AND

DIRECTOR

Bernard Fontanille is an emergency doctor, accustomed to interventions in difficult terrain. A frequent traveler, sensitive and passionate, he travels the world for various medical missions, whether it is to supervise teams or to treat others, protect them and relieve their pain. His curiosity and his humanity guide his approach, his need to experiment, his desire to discover others.Also attracted by the world of cinema documentary and writing, he co-wrote with the journalist-reporter Elena Sender the book “Besides Medicines” published by La Martinière (2014) which illustrates traditional and ancestral medicines, as well as the universal link that unites a patient and his trainer. This book accompanies the eponymous documentary series broadcast on Arte in which each program invites to discover a country, a doctor and a way of healing.

Alexis BergPROFESSIONAL

PHOTOGRAPHER

Alexis Berg is a journalist and a professional photographer focused on trail running. He was the official photographer of the 2015 Ultra-Trail World Tour, travelling around the world to photograph the people, scenery, and race action. His work has been published in a dozen magazines including National Geographic and UltraRunning magazine as well as by iRunFar and Strava.In 2017, he covered The Barkley, a mythic trail in Tennessee with over 1000 participants and only one or two finishers each year. His black and white report with animated pictures and realistic sound was published by the french L’Equipe Explorer Magazine.

Alice Lapujade

Alice Lapujade, a young graduate of a master’s degree in political and social sciences, a master’s degree in sociology and a degree in communication and modern letters.She has Usher’s Syndrome, a genetic disease that makes her progressively lose sight and hearing since childhood.She was extremely optimistic and participated in the Baïkal Challenge, an expedition on the Russian frozen lake bringing together several visually impaired and hearing impaired people whose goal was to show that anything is possible, even if one suffers from a severe handicap.The solution is simple: you have to look to others and accept no limit.This is how Alice recently became passionate about photography.

VISUALLY IMPAIRED PHOTOGRAPHER

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tHe Project suPPorter

The Team

Christine JaninChristine Janin, doctor and mountaineer, is the first Frenchwoman to reach the roof of the world, the EVEREST (8848m), on October 5, 1990, and the first woman in the world to reach the North Pole without mechanical means or sled dogs May 4, 1997.

After the expedition of Everest, she launched in 1992 in the ascension of the highest summit of each continent (Vinson, McKinley, Elbrouz, Kilimanjaro, Mount Carstenz and Aconcagua), the Seven Summits, thus becoming the first European to sign this challenge.

On her return from this extraordinary world tour, Christine meets Hélène Voisin, director of the school at the Trousseau Hospital in Paris: she offers to meet the children at the Hospital, for their tell her travels and exploits. From this experience with children is born a strong idea, that of the parallel between the difficulties encountered to conquer a summit and those experienced to overcome the disease: the diagnosis and the avalanche, the route and the path to healing, the sterile chamber and the bivouac tents at altitude.

It was the beginning of a wonderful adventure: «A chacun son Everest»

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The ProjecT

tHe exPedition

The project «Glasses for Mustang» is a two-week expedition to one of the most

remote areas of Nepal, on the border of Tibet, where several villages are difficult to

reach, at an altitude of more than 3500m. It consists of a jeep trip from Jomsom (the

main city of Mustang) to Chuksang, then to join the village of Namgyal in a three days

trek and finally the Chonup area, in the upper Mustang. At this location, six parti-

cularly isolated villages receive virtually no visit from the outside. This is where our

distribution of sunglasses will mainly take place.

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The ProjecT

WHy ?

In the mountains of the Himalayas at an altitude of 2500-5000 meters, people are exposed to strong sunlight - and therefore to harmful UV - throughout the year. Here, about 90% of the population suffers from diseases of ocular lesions and severe eye lesions, whereas it would be very easy to provide them with protection.

The mission is to collect and deliver new and / or used sunglasses to the inhabitants, even in the most remote regions of the mountains. All these sunglasses collected must have UV300/400 protection and each passes through a professional cleaning process before being distributed.

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The ProjecT

an artistic cHallenge

Yves Wansi

BLIND PHOTOGRAPHER

alice lapujade

BLIND PHOTOGRAPHER

stéphane Brunner

SEEING PHOTOGRAPHER

Bruno Mathon

SEEING PHOTOGRAPHER

With With

Alice and Yves will show us how they see the world with bad eyes but strong

feelings. All their pictures will be taken in black and white to enhance the

light they still catch, no matter if the photo is sharp or not.

Stéphane and Bruno will be in partneship with Alice and Yves, helping them

finding their way to the right places. They will also take pictures of sceneries

and people, sometimes with the same angle, sometimes differently.

At the end, they will bring back a treasure to share with all of you.

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The ProjecT

SEEING SEEING DIFFERENTLY

«That’s a big challenge for us (with a visual impairment) to take pictures of changing lights and shapes. But we will trust our deapest emotions» Alice Lapujade

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The ProjecT

mustangtHe film

«I want to make something similar to The Barkley, with animated pictures of what will inspire Yves, Stéphane, Alice and Bruno and bring back the emotion of helping all these children and people living in such remote villages.»

Alexis Berg

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Maps and detailled itinerary

The Mustang The High Mustang Isolated villages

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ParTners

HoW to ParticiPate ?

PARTNERS OF THIS CHALLENGE (ASSOCIATIONS)

Companies:

You have the will to commit yourself to defend the image of your company? The involvement of your company will prove your willingness to meet others and support people with disabilities.

The members of the expedition associate the partners to their communication (tele-vision, radio, press, internet), and agree to participate in the events organized by the companies for their own communication.

Private people:

Six tickets will be proposed to people who want to experience this magnificent ad-venture by our side while making themselves useful.

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CONTACT US! Stéphane Brunner +33 (0)6.32.44.29.53

PARTNERS OF THIS CHALLENGE (COMPANIES)

Vuarnet SomeWHere club

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VUARNE TLOVE DAYS

Vuarnet soutient l’association Shades of Love qui vient en aide aux populations qui vivent dans des conditions de luminosité extrême.

90 % de la population de l’Himalaya, des Andes ou de la Sibérie souffre de lésions oculaires à cause de leur exposition à un très fort ensoleillement.

Opération valable du 06 avril au 31 décembre 2017.

Pour tout achat d’un modèle Vuarnet, nous nous engageons à offrir en votre nom,

une monture solaire à l’association SHADES OF LOVE

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For any purchase of a Vuarnet model, we undertake to offer on your behalf,

a solar frame to the association

Vuarnet supports the association Shade of Love, which helps people living in conditions of extreme brightness.

90% of the population of the Himalayas, the Andes or Siberia suffer from eye damage due to their exposure to very high levels of sunshine.

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SINCE 1957

Operation valid from 6 April to 31 December 2020