Sarah Combredet is currently pursuing doctoral studies at Université Laval (Québec, Canada). Her research focuses on the transformation of the relationships that Mongolian inhabitants maintain with their sacred mountains. Drawing on critical and feminist approaches from cultural geography, her thesis aims to better understand how landscapes and humans mutually shape one another, and to what extent this co-shaping now interacts with processes of heritage-making, tourism development, and media representation of sacred sites. Her work has led her to explore issues related to gender and mountaineering, as well as the circulation of photographs of sacred landscapes on social media.
Her academic journey began in the humanities with a bachelor's degree in philosophy from Paris-Sorbonne University IV (Paris, France). Driven by a desire for tangible engagement and territorial issues, she turned to geography, completing a bachelor's degree in mountain geography and planning at Savoie Mont Blanc University (Chambéry, France), followed by a master's degree focused on cultural geography, territorial mediation, imagery, and experimentation at Bordeaux Montaigne University in France (Bordeaux, France).