Sarah Marquis

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Sarah Marquis, 2009

Sarah Marquis (born June 20, 1972 in Delémont ) is a Swiss adventurer and travel writer.

Life

She spent her youth in Montsevelier . After trying to travel on horseback or by canoe, she decided to travel on foot.

On her adventure travels, the Marquis covers dozens of kilometers with just a backpack and a handcart as luggage and sleeps in a tent. The supply is organized by her brother, the travel is financed by sponsors. She also gives lectures to share the experiences of her adventures.

In 2000 she made the first long solo hike from north to south in the western part of the United States (4,260 kilometers in four months) through the Rocky Mountains and the Mojave Desert .

In her first book, "Die Wüstenablebnisin", she told about the crossing of the Australian desert in 2002/2003 (over 14,000 kilometers in 17 months). This hike in the Australian outback is a classic run for the adventurer .

In 2006 she hiked on the ridge of the Andes from Chile to Machu Picchu (7000 kilometers in 8 months). On this expedition she was accompanied by a mountain guide who transported her over a distance of 200 km by car. The Swiss television program "Mise au point" accused her of not mentioning this fact in her book about the expedition (The Path of the Andes).

Under the name “ExplorAsia”, Sarah Marquis carried out another adventure trip for three years (2010–2013), which took her from Siberia to Australia via the Gobi Desert , the People's Republic of China , Laos and Thailand . It had to withstand temperatures of −20 degrees Celsius, sandstorms, night visits by Mongolian horsemen, drug dealers and outbreaks of dengue fever , among other things . Here she tested a special device that was developed by the Center suisse d'électronique et de microtechnique so that the Center hospitalier universitaire vaudois can track the adventurer's state of health.

In 2014 National Geographic nominated Sarah Marquis for the 2014 Adventurer of the Year award.

The French-language news magazine L'Hebdo compared Sarah Marquis to Ella Maillart . According to some sources, she is one of the ten most famous living adventurers in the world.

Works

  • L'aventurière des sables: 14,000 km à pied à travers les déserts australiens, Editions du Roc, Bévilard, 2004
  • La voie des Andes: 8 mois à pied sur la Cordillère des Andes, Eucalype, Verbier, 2007
  • The Desert Hiker, Eucalype, Verbier, 2007
  • L'extraordinaire destin de D'Joe: le chien australien de l'aventurière Sarah Marquis, Eucalype, Verbier, 2009
  • Sauvage par nature: 3 ans de marche extrême en solitaire de Sibérie en Australie, Michel Lafon, Neuilly-sur Seine, 2014

literature

Dictionnaire du Jura

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Migros Magazine (Construire), December 2, 2013.
  2. ↑ Madame Figaro, June 9, 2014
  3. ↑ Elle , November 25, 2011
  4. ↑ Walter Aeschimann: "I follow my heart". In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . January 17, 2014, accessed December 16, 2014 .
  5. ^ Sarah Marquis: "Sarah Marquis' adventures" (Lift09 FR, video, 26: 57min). In: DailyMotion.com. Lift conference, July 10, 2009, accessed December 16, 2014 .
  6. ↑ TED 2011
  7. ^ Tribune de Genève , April 21, 2014.
  8. ^ Passe-moi les jumelles ( TSI ), Radio Télévision Suisse , December 17, 2003.
  9. ^ Mise au point , October 24, 2010.
  10. ↑ Femina, May 21, 2013.
  11. ↑ Elizabeth Weil: The Woman Who Walked 10,000 Miles (No Exaggeration) in Three Years. In: New York Times Magazine. September 28, 2014, accessed December 16, 2014 .
  12. ↑ Le Temps , February 23, 2010
  13. ^ National Geographic , Adventurers of the year 2014
  14. ↑ L'Hebdo of April 24, 2014
  15. ^ Femina, November 24, 2013
  16. ↑ Marquis in Dictionnaire du Jura.ch
personal data
SURNAME Marquis, Sarah
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss adventurer and travel writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Delémont