Mot-clé Antarctic Exploration

L'expédition en Antarctique du commandant Cousteau à bord de la Calypso a été la plus passionnante mais aussi la plus périlleuse de toutes les aventures du grand baroudeur des mers. Un de ses hommes, Michel Laval, y a en effet trouvé la mort. Malgré tous les moyens extrêmement sophistiqués mis à la disposition de l'équipage, la Calypso restait bien fragile dans l'immensité de la banquise. L'équipe a ramené des images extraordinaires du ballet des baleines à bosse, du jeu des merveilleux nageurs que sont les pingouins, du mystérieux "poisson des glaces", etc. La beauté des paysages est portée par la musique de Ravel.

En 1991, Luc Jacquet partait pour sa première mission en Antarctique. Trente ans plus tard, il revient là où tout a commencé pour lui. Une invitation au voyage au cœur d’une nature sauvage et grandiose qui n’a jamais cessé de fasciner les hommes et d’attirer les plus grands explorateurs.

Les eaux profondes de l'océan austral et du Pacifique recèlent encore bien des mystères. Deux équipes internationales de scientifiques partent explorer les profondeurs glacées de l’Antarctique et les abysses de la fosse des Mariannes. Filmées pour la première fois, des créatures semblant venir d’une autre galaxie y cohabitent avec des champions de la survie en conditions extrêmes.

Set in the 1950's, a Japanese Antarctic research exploration team and 19 dogs that accompanied the team are stationed at the Showa Base in Antarctica. After a year, the exploration team is ordered to withdraw from the Antarctic station due to severe weather conditions. The dogs have to be left behind. The following year, the next team arrives at the Showa Base station and a miraculous reunion occurs between a dog handler accompanying the new tean and two dogs, Taro and Shiro, that are brothers.

In 1989, the German polar explorer Arved Fuchs and the South Tyrolean mountaineer Reinhold Messner set out together to reach the South Pole on skis without sled dogs or motor technology and then cross the entire Antarctic. There are problems right from the start because the onward transport to the starting point by plane cannot be carried out on time. Finally, the adventurers set off from Patriot Hills Base Camp on the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf to the Pole. The completely different character traits of the two men quickly emerge. Messner is impetuous and pushes for speed. The calm Fuchs divides his strength and consistently follows his pace during all planned breaks. On New Year's Eve 1989, the two men are warmly welcomed by the crew of the US Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. But the much larger and more dangerous part of their adventurous continental crossing still lies ahead of them. The 3-part documentary shows one of the last great adventures of modern times in impressive pictures.

This series follows a modern expedition that re-creates Sir Ernest Shackleton's trans-Antarctic expedition, which launched in 1914. The series joins a crew of five intrepid explorers, led by renowned adventurer, scientist, and author Tim Jarvis, as they duplicate Shackleton's epic sea-and-land voyage in a replica of the original explorer's lifeboat.