Céline Cousteau

The adventurer on New York, the South of France and beyond.

céline Cousteau calls

herself a “modern nomad” and laughs at the idea of having a hometown: “My taproot is in France, because that’s where my family is, but I have surface roots everywhere.” That’s no exaggeration: The French-American granddaughter of famed ocean explorer Jacques Cousteau travels “hundreds of thousands” of kilometres (everywhere from the Amazon to the Antarctic) each year through her work as a filmmaker and an explorer and now as an ambassador for the TreadRight Foundation, which advocates for sustainable tourism. “Travel makes us all explorers because it’s about the exploration of yourself in a new place,” says Cousteau.