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Odette Bernezat

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…