Summary
A team of glaciologists is seeking to unlock the secrets of one of Greenland’s largest glaciers using an underwater robot. The Petermann Glacier is a monster seventy kilometres long and twenty kilometres wide. An Arctic Grand Canyon, four hundred kilometres from the nearest village, which becomes a crystal trap when the wind picks up. The expedition is led by Éric Rignot, a French-American glaciologist. A NASA collaborator, his international reputation allows him to fight in space and at both poles to alert politicians and the public to the danger posed by rising sea levels. For a year, the film crew followed him in his Lutte des Glaces (Battle of the Ice) – as epic as a Jules Verne novel. A committed documentary that reconciles the marvellous with scientific adventure.
As part of UNESCO’s International Year of Glaciers, we discuss the worrying phenomenon of accelerating melting of glaciers in the Arctic and the world’s great mountain ranges. In addition to the screening of Florent Muller’s film, La lutte des glaces, we bring together two glaciologists to take stock of the latest developments.
With
- Daphné Buiron, glaciologue spécialiste des zones polaires
- Luc Moreau, glaciologue spécialiste du massif du Mont-Blanc
A screening in French with subtitles.
