ANNABEL GIRAUD-TELME

Annabel Giraud-Telme moves easily between worlds. British-born and French-raised, in 2020 she spring boarded from a ten-year career in the London world of haute couture – including working as designer and CEO of her namesake brand and training under HRH Queen Elizabeth II's master tailor – into the outdoor tourism space, working for five years as a Trip Leader for luxury tour operator Backroads. Around the same time came a move back to her roots in the French Alps, where she had spent childhood summers exploring, working the terroir to preserve it and food for the winter and enjoying her mami’s homemade freshly harvested berry tarts.

This journey of reinvention and return is what’s brought Belle to the experiences she puts at the forefront as an outdoor guide. For her, travel is about discovering that we have more in common than in difference. And it’s about how many ways of interacting with nature – creativity, food, shared challenges, and the deeply internal experience of physical movement – can become meditation.

On Belle’s trips, the magic happens in the details she obsesses over: the exact morning light on the trail; the specific herbs in the evening tea; the rhythm of a day that allows both adventure and integration. Her education in somatic yoga practice and mountain safety rounds out the long list of credentials that she brings to the trail. And where her expertise ends, her incredible relationships with local masters of their craft, from guides to artisans, bridge the gap. To travel with her is to feel at home wherever you are.