Video. Transhumance tradition returns to French Alps
- Updated: 01/07/2026 - 12:55 GMT+2 Sheep and goats are guided into Alpine pastures at Le Collet d’Allevard as France’s traditional transhumance festival returns in the Belledonne massif.
- The Transhumance Festival returned to Le Collet d’Allevard in the Belledonne massif, where several dozen people gathered to follow an ancestral Alpine tradition.
- Footage shows around 700 sheep, lambs, rams and goats moving towards high-altitude pastures, guided by shepherds from the Gap region as they head into their summer grazing grounds.
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- Updated: 01/07/2026 - 12:55 GMT+2 Sheep and goats are guided into Alpine pastures at Le Collet d’Allevard as France’s traditional transhumance festival returns in the Belledonne massif.
- The Transhumance Festival returned to Le Collet d’Allevard in the Belledonne massif, where several dozen people gathered to follow an ancestral Alpine tradition.
- Footage shows around 700 sheep, lambs, rams and goats moving towards high-altitude pastures, guided by shepherds from the Gap region as they head into their summer grazing grounds.
Sources: Euronews