What do we know about the Muskox ?

EXPLANATION - Unexpected meeting with a muskox. Grazing just few hundred meters away from our base camp, the peacefull beast rised many questions. What do we know of this mammal, typical of the arctic tundra ? How does he survivein these extreme conditions ? Who is he mainly hunted by ? Read here some answers by ecologists Tanguy Daufresne and Nicolas Gaidet (Cirad).

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The weird noise of a Greenlandic Glacier

SOUND - From one of the floating glacier of Scoresby Sund - the biggest fjord network in the world - a smooth crackling noise can be heard. Stress released by the ice ? Listen to Evrard, describing this magical instant.

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What does a typical day in expedition look like ?

What (and when !) do we eat ? What (and when !) do we sleep ? And above all : what are we doing up there ? A summary of our beautifull (but hard) days, in one of the most remote place on earth.

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Free diving : Advices by Laurent Marie

INTERVIEW – Laurent Marie, 36 years old, professionnal fireman in Brest, joined the team to fulfill his narwhals quest. His part ? To free dive in an extremely cold water to catch this mytical creature on tape. Listen to his story.

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They walked on an Iceberg !

For Science of course, but also for their own pleasure, Eric Larose, Agnès Helmstetter and Evrard Wendenbaum climb up an Iceberg floating in Harefjord, to equip it with sismic sensors. Tale of this once in a life time experience. .

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« I felt the way than when I was watching volcanic eruptions »

TESTIMONY - Eric Larose, Geophysicist at Grenoble Isterre, talks with emotion about his last adventure. Alongside Evrard, he went down more than thirty meters deep, in a moulin on Edward Bailey glacier.

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'Greenland makes me think of the Lord of the Rings'

How do they live? What do they feel? Mission Scoresby team kindly accepted to answer questions everyone is wondering about. They try to share their outstanding experience in 10 questions/answers. Or more...

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Arctic Hares base camp

STORY - Harefjord - the fjord of hares. The name is appropriate: just climb up on the grassy slopes which surround the camp, and you will see many of these hares, not shy at all. When they scamper, they oddly jump up on their back legs, and seems to float quickly over the grass.

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"What surprised me in Greenland? The mosquitoes! »

How do they live? What do they feel? Mission Scoresby team kindly accepted to answer questions everyone is wondering about. They try to share their outstanding experience in 10 questions/answers. Or more...

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In the tumult of an icy torrent

LONG COURSE - Diving Combinations in the heart of a glacier, this is possible. A few meters from camp 3, at the heart of Edward Bailey glacier, Philippe Evrard and bear arms in their little red boats. There are preparing to board down for a bédière, a glacial torrent.

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