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Paired ski-touring and tandem-ethnography: An investigative account of a fortuitous methodology

Two joint ethnographic investigations into the same practice, ski touring in the Alps, invited two researchers to meet and carry out an investigation in tandem. This article aims to follow the reflexive account of this investigation in order to recreate the context and the methodological issues. By comparing ethnographic descriptions resulting from the subjective experiences of the situations shared by the investigators, a series of asymmetries and convergences in each person’s feelings and observations will be brought to light. Moreover, carrying out this contrastive analysis of the field experiences required the implementation of an ad-hoc methodological device. The present essay therefore looks back at its development and application in order to highlight the heuristic scope of a method based on a cross-fertilization of ethnographic perspectives. Finally, it will show how, by being confronted with their own framings, each investigator gained a valuable reflexivity to pursue their research.