ARKTIKA​​​​​​​

Passionate about nature and the peoples of the Arctic, I traveled for 30 years of my life the Far North opting for very long expeditions with a background of often extreme physical and mental commitment, moving with the help of traditional or non-mechanized means of locomotion such as kayaking, dog sledding, skis or sailing boat in order to best respect wilderness and their inhabitants, whether human or not.
I thus made a great crossing of Siberia for four years from Norway to the Bering Strait, dog sledding and kayaking, sailed with a small 47 foot-yacht the Northwest Passage (from Iceland to Alaska) and North- East Passage (from Alaska to Norway) along the American and Eurasian arctic coastlines, carrying out a complete circumnavigation of the globe north of the arctic circle.

Slowness and duration are, according to my ethics, essential in the exploration to better understand the Beauty and try to transmit it by means of words or image, offering a committed questioning on the place of man in nature.

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Expeditions

• Wintering in Svalbard (Spitzbergen) aboard his sailboat Arktika, 2016-17

• Northeast Passage, from east to west aboard his sailboat Artkika, thus completing the circumnavigation of the Arctic, 2014.

• Northwest Passage, from east to west aboard his sailboat Artkika, 2013.

• Greenland, exploration of the East coast aboard his sailboat Arktika, 2012.

• Arktika 2000: 12,000 km from the North Cape (Norway) to the Bering Strait (Russia), four years alone in kayak and dog sled, from May 30, 2000 to April 4, 2004, expedition supported by the European Space Agency (ESA). ).

• Eastern Canada (Quebec, Labrador, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick), 1998, 4,000 km by bicycle including the Freedom Highway (Labrador).

• Mongolia, 1995, 1996 and 1997 by bicycle, horse and camel.

• Siberia, 6 expeditions between 1992 and 1995, transhumance with the Evens of Kamchatka.

• West Africa from October 1990 to April 1991 from Saint-Malo to Niamey (Niger) by bicycle then from Niamey to Ouagadougou (Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso) by camel alone, i.e. 6,000 km.

• Greenland, 1990, solo kayak raid.

• Nepal - India, 1988, 6,000 km on foot and by bicycle.

• New Zealand, on foot and by bicycle from November 1987 to January 1988.

• Papua New-Guinea, solo descent of the Sepik River in a dugout canoe, 1987.

• Australia 1985/1987.

• Greenland, 1984/1985, a year in a small Inuit village. Learning the Greenlandic language and Inuit techniques. Solo dog sled raid from Ilulissat to Illorssuit.

• Iceland, 1983, north-south crossing of the island on foot