SYNOPSIS
Victime d’un grave accident cérébral dans les contreforts de l'Himalaya indien, ORIANNE AYMARD, quelques années plus tard, déjoue les
pronostics établis par ses médecins, et décide de poursuivre son rêve et de gravir le Lhotse (8,516 m), sommet satellite du mont Everest et 4ème plus haut sommet au monde. Seule et unique femme
de son groupe, elle se lance ainsi dans un périple, qui la mènera au bout d’elle-même, aux frontières de la mort. Malgré le déroulement chaotique de son expédition, le 23 mai 2019, elle se
retrouve au sommet du Lhotse, contemplant devant elle Chomolungma, ou Everest, la Déesse Mère du Monde.
A travers ce témoignage, Orianne Aymard nous livre ici les étapes clés qui l’ont conduite au sommet du Lhotse et lui ont permis de rester en vie à la descente. Il s'agit d'un véritable
enseignement pour apprendre à se dépasser et faire face à des situations de crise, mais aussi à renforcer sa capacité de résilience et son
leadership.
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Her expansive career has taken her to many regions of the world. As part of her assignments with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), she spent time mostly in Africa, as well as in Haiti in the midst of the post-earthquake emergency. Orianne also worked for several years at the French Ministry for Foreign Affairs, primarily on religious issues, violent extremism and human rights.
Orianne holds a Ph.D. (Religious Studies) from the Université of Québec in Montréal, as well as a MSc (Social Policy) from the London School of Economics (LSE). She was a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University and is the author of When a Goddess Dies (Oxford University Press, New York).
She now lives in Chamonix, in the French Alps, and has just published a second book Sous l’oeil de la Déesse (Under the Eye of the Goddess) with Editions du Mont-Blanc, which is a story of sheer resilience as she recounts her ascent of Lhotse (8516m), the fourth highest mountain in the world.
Constantly reaching for personal development and aiming to surpass my own limits, I climbed some of the highest mountains in the world, such as Lhotse (8,516m) in 2019. Speak on surpassing oneself, leadership, and resilience through conferences
(Lhotse’s 8,516m, Himlung’s 7,126m,
Mont-Blanc’s 4,810m, Great Crossings
of the Alps & Pyrenees, Way of St.
James from Paris 2,300km, etc.)
Crisis management in extreme situations
Leadership / Women’s leadership
Published writing & public speaking
« Himalayas, Under the
Eye of the Goddess »
« When a Goddess Dies »
Oxford University Press (NY)
2008
Doctor of Philosophy
(PhD) in Religious Studies
Université du Québec à Montréal
2002
Master (M.Sc.) in
Social Policy
London School of Economics
2001
Master (M.Sc.) in
Environmental Sciences
University of Western Brittany
1999
Bachelor in Life
Sciences
University of Paris XI (France)