Glaciologist Heidi Sevestre and explorer Matthieu Tordeur search for yesterday's ice to understand the melting of today's ice.
Glaciologist Heidi Sevestre and explorer Matthieu Tordeur will travel nearly 4,000 kilometers in Antarctica, searching for ice that is 130,000 years old. This ice is an essential tool for understanding the impact of climate change.
Traveling on skis, pulled by kitesurfing sails, glaciologist Heïdi Sevestre and explorer Matthieu Tordeur will spend three months traversing Antarctica in search of 130,000-year-old ice, to better understand the impact of global warming . Indeed, at that time, the climate was 3 degrees warmer on planet Earth!
The duo landed on October 29 at Novolazarevskaya Station in East Antarctica and will undertake a 4,000-kilometer journey that will take them from the eastern highlands to West Antarctica . They will be towing two ground-penetrating radars to scan the polar ice cap and monitor its evolution in relation to temperature.
As COP30 opens on November 10 in Belém, Brazil, the two Frenchmen want to remind governments of the urgent need to limit greenhouse gas emissions.
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