Marie-Pier’s Story
Marie-Pier was born in 1985 in Victoriaville (Quebec), Canada.
Already from a young age, she became interested in discovering the world and in challenging herself.
Barely 18, with a rough English and few hundred dollars in her pocket, Marie left Canada to go travel.
It was during this backpacking year abroad that the 2004 Tsunami made her captive of the waters in Phuket, Thailand.
This experience of natural disasters soon drove her desire to work in the field of disaster management. It led her also to the Maldives where she studied the aftermath of the tsunami recovery as part of her master studies. Marie-Pier expatriated herself to Qatar not long after to work in the field.
Throughout her life much of Marie's journey has been about developing resilience, whether her own or in her line of work. Challenge's been an integral part of it. Marie is a survivor, a world traveler, a Québécoise woman who arrived in Qatar at a time where women empowerment was gaining a much needed importance.
Today, Marie-Pier wants to contribute to the women footprint, which is underrepresented in many fields, including in the world of mountaineering, by increasing the women to men ratio on the highest peaks of the world.