The effects of climate change on the practices of the high mountain guide profession
Your experience as mountain guide
1. How long have you been a high mountain guide? Enter the year of graduation
2. To which company are you attached?
3. In 2017, you are: Only one possible answer. o Pluriactive o Monoactive
4. If you are pluriactive, what are your other professions?
5. Over the year, how many days do you work as a guide?
6. You work as a guide as: Only one possible answer.
o Independent guide o Independent guide & attached to a company/office o Independent guide & working with a Tour Operator o Employed guide o Other :
7. What are the three activities you supervise most? Maximum three answers Several possible answers.
o Summer mountaineering o Ice hiking o Sport climbing o Climbing o Trekking/hiking o Canyoning o Winter mountaineering o Ice climbing o Ski touring o Ski trekking o Off-slope ski o Ice school o Snowshoeing o Héliski o Compagny seminar o Expedition (as Professional) o Other :
8. What are the three months on which most of your guiding work days are concentrated? Maximum three answers Several possible answers.
o January o February o March o April o May o June o July o August o September o October o November o December
Your experience as a guide in the summer (May to October)
9. In summer, how many days do you work as guide? 10. In summer, how many days do you work with a company/office/Tour operator ? 11. In summer, what are the most activity you supervised? Maximum three answers Several possible answers.
o Mountaineering o Glacier hike o Mont-Blanc o Mont Blanc (stage) o Ice school o Climbing route o Climbing o Canyoning o Trekking/hiking o Expedition (as professionnal) o Via Ferrata o Mountain Bike o Other :
12. In summer, what are the three massifs you visit the most? If possible, rank from the busiest to the least busy and specify the average number of days spent in each massif (example: Grand Paradis (20 days), Mont-Blanc (15 days), Valais (5 days))
13. In general, what level are the routes you do? Maximum two answers Several possible answers
o F o PD o AD o D o TD o ED
Your practice as a guide in winter
14. In winter, how many days do you work as a guide? 15. In winter, how many working days do you get from a company/office or travel agency? 16. In summer, which activities do you supervise the most? Maximum three answers Several possible answers.
o Off-slope skiing o Ski touring o Winter mountaineering o Ice climbing o Snowshoeing o Expedition / Travel o Other :
17. In winter, what are the three most frequented massifs? If possible, rank from the busiest to the least busy and specify the average number of days spent in each massif (example: Grand Paradis (20 days), Mont-Blanc (15 days), Valais (5 days))
18. In general, what level are the routes you do? Two possible answers Several possible answers.
o F o PD o AD o D o TD o ED
Your perception and adaptation to the effects of climate change
19. What does the term "climate change" mean to you?
20. Do you observe a change in high mountain environments due to climate change? Only one possible answer.
o Yes o No
21. If so, what are the main changes you are seeing?
22. In your opinion, since when are these changes significant? 23. Do these changes require you to adapt your practices? Only one possible answer.
o Yes o No
24. If so, in what way? 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Easy Difficult
26. Is your economic activity affected by this evolution of high mountain environments? Only one possible answer.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Not at all Absolutly
27. Explain your answer
28. Does the evolution of the conditions of practice linked to climate change push you to move more from one massif to another? Only one possible answer.
o Yes o No o Other :
29. Do you think that the evolution of high mountain environments in response to climate change makes the mountain more dangerous for climbers? Only one possible answer.
o Yes o No o Difficult to assess o Other :
30. Does the evolution of high mountain environments in response to global warming lead you to take more risks? Only one possible answer.
o Yes o No o Other :
31. Do you feel that your clients are aware of the effects of climate change on high mountain environments? Only one possible answer.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Not at all Absolutly
32. Are you trying to make your clients aware of the evolution of high mountain environments? Only one possible answer.
o Yes o No o Other :
33. Is your clientele ready to adapt their high mountain practice to changing environments? Only one possible answer.
o Yes o No o Other :
34. How do you feel about the evolution of high mountain environments due to climate change? Maximum three answers Several possible answers.
o Anger o Resignation o Sadness o Curiosity o Nostalgia o Indifference o Concern o Stress o Optimism o Fear o Perplexity o Other :
35. Despite the evolution of the environment, do you still enjoy going to the high mountains?o Autre :
36. Explain your answer
37. Is the transformation of landscapes out of step with your imagination of high mountains? Only one possible answer. o Yes o No o Other :
38. Explain your answer
39. In the future, do you think that climate change and its effects on high mountain environments will lead you to reorganize and change the way you practice guiding? Only one possible answer.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Not at all Absolutly
40. Explain your answer ?
Your own climate-related actions
41. In your job as a guide and/or in your guide company/office, are you trying to reduce your own contribution to climate change?
42. If so, by what concrete actions?
43. Do you pay particular attention to the preservation of biodiversity? Only one possible answer. o Yes o No o Other :
44. If so, by what concrete actions?
45. According to you, as a guide, your power to act to limit climate change in the Alps is:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Low High
Your Socioprofessional Profile
46. How old are you
47. You are: Only one possible answer. o A woman o A man
48. Nationality 49. Region of residence Postal code
50. What is your highest degree? Only one possible answer.
o No degree o High School certificat o Apprenticeship or trade certificat o College, CEGEP or other non-university diploma o University degree below the Bachelor level o University degree at the Bachelor level o University degree above the Bachelor level