Ella Maillart
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It is always our own Self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that Self, the better.
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Ella Maillart
@ellamaillart.bsky.social
· Aug 21
"Here in India I have started on a new journey which, I know, will take me further than before towards the perfect life I was instinctively seeking."
Cruises and Caravans, 1942
Cruises and Caravans, 1942
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"At the beginning of April 1951 I landed on the airfield at Khatmandu with the intention of studying some remote Nepalese village as near as possible to the tree-line: its daily activities would in many ways be similar to those of my Swiss village ..."
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February 9, 2026 at 11:16 AM
"At the beginning of April 1951 I landed on the airfield at Khatmandu with the intention of studying some remote Nepalese village as near as possible to the tree-line: its daily activities would in many ways be similar to those of my Swiss village ..."
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Reposted by Ella Maillart
“The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step”. ~ Lao Tzu
#RamanaMaharshi #Tiruvannamalai #traffic #signage
#RamanaMaharshi #Tiruvannamalai #traffic #signage
February 8, 2026 at 4:03 PM
“The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step”. ~ Lao Tzu
#RamanaMaharshi #Tiruvannamalai #traffic #signage
#RamanaMaharshi #Tiruvannamalai #traffic #signage
"Suddenly I understood something. I felt now, with all the strength of my senses and intelligence, that France, Europe, the White Race, were nothing. The something that counted against all particularisms was the magnificent scene of things we call the world."
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Ella Maillart – A Life-long Adventurer – Unconventional and Multi-Talented
It’s 1932. A woman with a bicycle is standing on a mountain looking at the eastern frontier of Russian Turkestan. “…from the heights of the Celestial Mountains, I could [see], on …
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February 8, 2026 at 9:47 AM
"Suddenly I understood something. I felt now, with all the strength of my senses and intelligence, that France, Europe, the White Race, were nothing. The something that counted against all particularisms was the magnificent scene of things we call the world."
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Mixing sound, illustrations, images and archives to plunge the public into the maritime world of Ella and Miette, this immersive journey highlights the audacity of two women who, in the 1920s, dared to defy conventions to follow their dreams.
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February 7, 2026 at 4:49 PM
Mixing sound, illustrations, images and archives to plunge the public into the maritime world of Ella and Miette, this immersive journey highlights the audacity of two women who, in the 1920s, dared to defy conventions to follow their dreams.
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Homage to Ella Maillart
Anne Dériaz, Daniel Girardin, Paul Lambert, Georges Duvaud and Paul Siegrist discuss her youth and her passion for sailing.
Part 2
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Anne Dériaz, Daniel Girardin, Paul Lambert, Georges Duvaud and Paul Siegrist discuss her youth and her passion for sailing.
Part 2
www.rts.ch/archives/199...
Hommage à Ella Maillart (2e partie) | RTS
En hommage à Ella Maillart, "Zig Zag Café" reçoit ses invités du jour Anne Dériaz, Daniel Girardin, Paul Lambert, Georges Duvaud et Paul Siegrist pour évoquer sa jeunesse et sa passion pour la voile....
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February 5, 2026 at 2:24 PM
Homage to Ella Maillart
Anne Dériaz, Daniel Girardin, Paul Lambert, Georges Duvaud and Paul Siegrist discuss her youth and her passion for sailing.
Part 2
www.rts.ch/archives/199...
Anne Dériaz, Daniel Girardin, Paul Lambert, Georges Duvaud and Paul Siegrist discuss her youth and her passion for sailing.
Part 2
www.rts.ch/archives/199...
Homage to Ella Maillart
Anne Dériaz, Rosemarie Bourrit, Philomène Zufferey, Ernest Zufferey, Joël Zufferey, Richard Zufferey, Richard Amman, René Epiney and Roland Tolmatchoff talk about her life in Chandolin.
Part 1
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Anne Dériaz, Rosemarie Bourrit, Philomène Zufferey, Ernest Zufferey, Joël Zufferey, Richard Zufferey, Richard Amman, René Epiney and Roland Tolmatchoff talk about her life in Chandolin.
Part 1
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Hommage à Ella Maillart (1ère partie) | RTS
En hommage à Ella Maillart, "Zig Zag Café" reçoit ses invités du jour Anne Dériaz, Rosemarie Bourrit, Philomène Zufferey, Ernest Zufferey, Joël Zufferey, Richard Zufferey, Richard Amman, René Epiney e...
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February 5, 2026 at 2:23 PM
Homage to Ella Maillart
Anne Dériaz, Rosemarie Bourrit, Philomène Zufferey, Ernest Zufferey, Joël Zufferey, Richard Zufferey, Richard Amman, René Epiney and Roland Tolmatchoff talk about her life in Chandolin.
Part 1
www.rts.ch/archives/199...
Anne Dériaz, Rosemarie Bourrit, Philomène Zufferey, Ernest Zufferey, Joël Zufferey, Richard Zufferey, Richard Amman, René Epiney and Roland Tolmatchoff talk about her life in Chandolin.
Part 1
www.rts.ch/archives/199...
Reposted by Ella Maillart
February 4, 2026 at 6:06 PM
Whether in Turkestan, Iran, China, India or Afghanistan, one never encounters a colonial gaze, but a deep respect for the other. What makes Ella Maillart so special is her gaze: a mixture of analytical distance and poetic empathy.
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February 4, 2026 at 1:32 PM
Whether in Turkestan, Iran, China, India or Afghanistan, one never encounters a colonial gaze, but a deep respect for the other. What makes Ella Maillart so special is her gaze: a mixture of analytical distance and poetic empathy.
www.olli-onelifeliveit.com/en/blog/1939...
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Lestime, a non-profit association for lesbians, lesboqueer and feminist individuals in Geneva.
The play Sils-Kaboul based on the lives of Ella Maillart and Annemarie Schwarzenbach staged at the Théâtre du Galpon, Geneva.
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The play Sils-Kaboul based on the lives of Ella Maillart and Annemarie Schwarzenbach staged at the Théâtre du Galpon, Geneva.
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February 3, 2026 at 9:40 AM
Lestime, a non-profit association for lesbians, lesboqueer and feminist individuals in Geneva.
The play Sils-Kaboul based on the lives of Ella Maillart and Annemarie Schwarzenbach staged at the Théâtre du Galpon, Geneva.
www.lestime.ch/theatre/2017...
ge.leprogramme.ch/theatre/sils...
The play Sils-Kaboul based on the lives of Ella Maillart and Annemarie Schwarzenbach staged at the Théâtre du Galpon, Geneva.
www.lestime.ch/theatre/2017...
ge.leprogramme.ch/theatre/sils...
Reposted by Ella Maillart
Imbolg and the work of fire
Imbolg is arriving quietly here. There is no drama to it, no obvious turning of the year that announces itself with surprise. The fields are still bare. The air still bites. Winter has not loosened its grip. Yet something has shifted. The days lengthen almost…
Imbolg is arriving quietly here. There is no drama to it, no obvious turning of the year that announces itself with surprise. The fields are still bare. The air still bites. Winter has not loosened its grip. Yet something has shifted. The days lengthen almost…
Imbolg and the work of fire
Imbolg is arriving quietly here. There is no drama to it, no obvious turning of the year that announces itself with surprise. The fields are still bare. The air still bites. Winter has not loosened its grip. Yet something has shifted. The days lengthen almost imperceptibly. Ewes begin to lactate. When I send my shovel into the ground, though hard on the surface, it is no longer inert.
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February 1, 2026 at 1:36 AM
Imbolg and the work of fire
Imbolg is arriving quietly here. There is no drama to it, no obvious turning of the year that announces itself with surprise. The fields are still bare. The air still bites. Winter has not loosened its grip. Yet something has shifted. The days lengthen almost…
Imbolg is arriving quietly here. There is no drama to it, no obvious turning of the year that announces itself with surprise. The fields are still bare. The air still bites. Winter has not loosened its grip. Yet something has shifted. The days lengthen almost…
Reposted by Ella Maillart
Ageing gracefully, even as it flakes and peels off the wall, the brilliant vintage logo designed by our very own dear, undeparted Surya (Guy Coapy-Smith) for the #ArunachalaAnimalShelter, #Tiruvannamalai.
BTW, how many other beings can you spot?
And a cloud atop #Arunachala?
BTW, how many other beings can you spot?
And a cloud atop #Arunachala?
February 2, 2026 at 1:57 PM
Ageing gracefully, even as it flakes and peels off the wall, the brilliant vintage logo designed by our very own dear, undeparted Surya (Guy Coapy-Smith) for the #ArunachalaAnimalShelter, #Tiruvannamalai.
BTW, how many other beings can you spot?
And a cloud atop #Arunachala?
BTW, how many other beings can you spot?
And a cloud atop #Arunachala?
“I went to my grandmother and said, ‘I didn’t know grandfather’s sister was a writer’. And she said, ‘yes, she was a writer, and a lesbian and a morphine addict’, and this was the first huge piece of information I had about her.”
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Swiss writer's life was stranger than fiction
At once fragile – she suffered drug addiction – and courageous, she travelled to remote Afghanistan in the 1930s, Annemarie fascinated both men and women. Friday marked the 100th anniversary of her bi...
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January 31, 2026 at 4:49 AM
“I went to my grandmother and said, ‘I didn’t know grandfather’s sister was a writer’. And she said, ‘yes, she was a writer, and a lesbian and a morphine addict’, and this was the first huge piece of information I had about her.”
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www.swissinfo.ch/eng/culture/...
The State Council has chosen the name of Ella Maillart for the new Lycée-Collège in Sion which will open its doors in 2026.
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Le nouveau collège de Sion portera le nom de "Lycée-Collège Ella Maillart, Sion"
Après avoir retenu le nom de S. Corinna Bille pour l’Ecole de commerce et de culture générale de Sierre en 2019, le conseil d'Etat a choisi celui d’Ella | Rhône FM, la radio de l'info en Valais
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January 28, 2026 at 7:15 AM
The State Council has chosen the name of Ella Maillart for the new Lycée-Collège in Sion which will open its doors in 2026.
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Ella acted in a ski film produced in Mürren in 1929. As a member of the Swiss national skiing team, she defended the colours of her country at the World Championship races at Mürren (1931), Cortina d'Ampezzo (1932), Innsbruck (1933) and St Moritz (1934).
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Ella Maillart: Ski- und Filmpionierin in Mürren und Bamiyan - Hotel Regina Mürren
Als Skifahrerin nahm sie 1931 an den Ski-Weltmeisterschaften in Mürren teil und war Mitglied im Kandahar-Ski-Club. Gemeinsam mit Annemarie Schwarzenbach reiste
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January 26, 2026 at 5:55 AM
Ella acted in a ski film produced in Mürren in 1929. As a member of the Swiss national skiing team, she defended the colours of her country at the World Championship races at Mürren (1931), Cortina d'Ampezzo (1932), Innsbruck (1933) and St Moritz (1934).
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"Maillart documented from within, travelling with few resources and often alone, and her images give us traces of societies in transition - across the Soviet Union, Central Asia, and Asia at large."
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January 22, 2026 at 11:36 PM
"Maillart documented from within, travelling with few resources and often alone, and her images give us traces of societies in transition - across the Soviet Union, Central Asia, and Asia at large."
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I can see now that a concept or even a feeling makes no sense unless out of our substance we spin around it a web of references, of relationships, of values.
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Top 40 Ella Maillart Quotes (2026 Update) - QuoteFancy
Discover the Top 40 Ella Maillart Quotes, as voted by QuoteFancy readers. Updated January 2026. Download free, high-quality (4K) pictures and wallpapers featuring the best Ella Maillart Quotes.
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January 22, 2026 at 1:23 PM
I can see now that a concept or even a feeling makes no sense unless out of our substance we spin around it a web of references, of relationships, of values.
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“Where there is a will there is a way” reads the inscription on the commemorative plaque on Avenue Gaspard-Vallette, Ella Maillart’s Geneva address.
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Ella Maillart, from the dreams of the open sea to the call of the land - NOW Village
Ella Maillart : navigatrice déterminée, sportive de haut niveau, voyageuse audacieuse, photographe de talent, journaliste par nécessité et guide passionnée.
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January 19, 2026 at 9:01 AM
“Where there is a will there is a way” reads the inscription on the commemorative plaque on Avenue Gaspard-Vallette, Ella Maillart’s Geneva address.
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Her trip to Afghanistan with Ella Maillart marked a decisive low in her physical and mental health. ... The effect it had on her usual charisma eventually exhausted Maillart, who remarked honestly that she was sick of Annemarie by the end of the journey.
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Revisiting the life of trailblazing queer heroine Annemarie Schwarzenbach
The androgynous photographer and writer captivated all who met her – and was an inspiration for this season’s Givenchy show
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January 17, 2026 at 7:06 AM
Her trip to Afghanistan with Ella Maillart marked a decisive low in her physical and mental health. ... The effect it had on her usual charisma eventually exhausted Maillart, who remarked honestly that she was sick of Annemarie by the end of the journey.
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Underlying every aspect of The Cruel Way is the question of gender, and the complex attitudes of both Schwarzenbach and Maillart to what would have been regarded at the time as their adoption of purely masculine prerogatives ...
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January 15, 2026 at 4:21 PM
Underlying every aspect of The Cruel Way is the question of gender, and the complex attitudes of both Schwarzenbach and Maillart to what would have been regarded at the time as their adoption of purely masculine prerogatives ...
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A letter from the editor-in-chief of the newspaper Le Petit Parisien to Ella Maillart dated 2 December 1935, confirming receipt of her correspondence and expressing the intention to publish her work.
![Paris, December 2, 1935
Mademoiselle ELLA MAILLART
30, Contamines
GENEVA
Mademoiselle,
I have well received your letter. I propose to publish your survey in the coming days and I will read your reportage with pleasure.
Please accept, Mademoiselle, my regards.
THE EDITOR IN CHIEF:
[Signature]
When Ella Maillart travelled to the end of the world, she stayed, as much as she could, in contact with the editorial offices of the newspapers for whom she wrote.
From Manchukuo, in December 1935, before setting off for Xinjiang, she wrote to Élie-Joseph Bois, the editor-in-chief of Le Petit Parisien.
The latter replied to her in Geneva with a letter that her mother received for her.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wbblprsobowc3zts6estviis/bafkreig6yh6foij2ifiee5vungbqbgou4m33af4rwubvbsxutr3be2cmyu@jpeg)
January 13, 2026 at 6:24 AM
A letter from the editor-in-chief of the newspaper Le Petit Parisien to Ella Maillart dated 2 December 1935, confirming receipt of her correspondence and expressing the intention to publish her work.