Swopping Francesco for a mountain guide

Location Chamonix, France. Swanky apartment. Ditched the David Lynch one. | Mood Can't get enough of the mountain air | Date 12 December 2005
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Author (full name): 
Franny Armstrong
Location: 
Chamonix, France. Swanky apartment. Ditched the David Lynch one.
Mood: 
Can't get enough of the mountain air
Soundtrack: 
Craig David, Just Don't Love You No More. On laptop.
Ailments: 
None
Date: 
12 December 2005
Current crisis: 
None
Next job: 
In mountains

I've slowly come to the conclusion that Francesco is not the right person for us as he spends all his time sitting round committee tables/conferences talking about climate change, rather than experiencing it. So, after some helpful suggestions from our 124-strong "Crude Insiders" email list (everyone who gave money or is working on the film), we've set our hearts on finding a French mountain guide, who works up in the mountains and sees all the changes. Preferably someone very old, so they can remember when things were really different.

So we emailed 1500 French mountain guides (that'll be all of them) and got tonnes of interesting replies. Most promising was a friendly guide called Manu telling us of two mountain guides in Chamonix, who aren't on email themselves as they're aged 69 and 81. My sister's girlfriend is handily a French translator, so she called them up for us. They didn't sound exceptionally keen on the phone, but did agree to meet up.