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The “Club des Amis Respectueux des Vallées Alpines”, known as Club ARVA for short, has had a campaign on for some time now to plant trees in order to hide the motorway. Their first success was around the Youth Hostel, which now looks so much better with its new forest of 250 trees, planted by the club.

This beautiful painting is by Martial Bourlot and is on the front of their card - the reverse reads:

Trees for life for the Chamonix Valley

With one euro, ten euros or more, we can hide the route “blanche” (the motorway that sits at the foot of Mont Blanc and its glaciers, cutting the valley in two) and help restore the enchanting splendour of the Chamonix valley. Together we’ll buy a forest :
a larch (mélèze)
a branch
a fir (un sapin)
a rowan (un sorbier des oiseleurs)
an Arolla pine ( un pin cembro)
a needle (une aiguille)
a nest (un nid)
a silver birch (un bouleau)
a rare beech (un hêtre rare)
a hornbeam (un charme)
a Mugho pine (un pin à crochets)
a sequoia,
an oak (un chêne)
a pine cone (une pomme de pin)
the smell of resin (un parfum de résine)
silence,
shade (de l’ombre)
the breeze (du vent)
oxygen
leaves of all shades and colours
a glimmer of hope …

Plant – Hide – Admire – Cherish – Respect – Cultivate – Persevere and Wager that one day man will stop destroying his own nest. As one makes one’s nest, one must curl up in it …

Association Club A.R.V.A 94 Chemin de la Rosière, 74400 Chamonix Mont-Blanc

To donate, you can make a cheque payable to the association Club A.R.V.A, or bank transfer to Credit Agricole de Chamonix, IBAN FR76 1810 60002296 7032 5669 196