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"Mountain guide.
A vocation? Perhaps, yet for a very small minority.
A profession? Certainly one of the smallest ever.
A group? Multicultural and diverse.
An image? Yes, that sometimes nears mythical proportions.
In their territory, the mountains, you can recognize them by their badge, sometimes their uniform, or because they are leading a group. They do not pay for the funiculars and they feel at ease in the kitchens of mountain huts where the common climber does not have access.
In the city, you can not distinguish them from the common mortals, if only for their perennially tanned skin, a sporty walk and a free and easy persona.
If you dig beyond the appearance, in most cases, you can classify them indifferently as anarchists of the right wing or conservatives of the left wing, jealous of their autonomy and too open to the world to be attracted by power games"
(Erik Decamp, 1988).