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Here is a tale of rebirth. A brilliant journalist, writer, chess puzzle creator and avid sportsman - Thierry Ott's world came crashing down in 1994 when he was struck with aphasia. After undergoing ...
After a rollercoaster pro skiing career littered with highs and lows, podium glories and shattering injuries, Gregory Tuscher now helms the Swiss freeski team as their national coach. An icon ...
Ikaria, an untamed Greek island nestled between mountains and rugged coastlines, embodies a Greece that's off the beaten path, far from the madding crowds of tourists. Here degrowth has become a way ...
Let’s get into ice diving. Lake Lioson, at an altitude of 1850m, is a magnificent mountain lake in the Vaud canton, Switzerland. Frozen over in winter, it attracts from January to late March divers ...
From its height of 2,877 metres, the Pic du Midi observatory has been enthroned over the French Pyrenees for 140 years. The world's first high-mountain observatory, its scientific center specializing ...
Freedivers Cindy, Roland, Saini and Christian consider their sport as a way of life, an inner adventure. Several times world champion Christian takes us on a journey into the depths of the Rhône, ...
Where do trees come from, how old are they when they are alive, when did they die when all we are left with are their remains: The dendrochronologist 's job is to answer all these questions, and with ...
In the North of Ecuador, the Los Yaltes ecological reserve is an endangered forest. French film-maker Philippe Moulin has dedicated 25 years of his life to saving Los Yaltes from deforestation, ...
A media star, adulated by sponsors, Mike Horn has been travelling across the globe in search of new extreme exploits for three decades. But who really is the South African-born adventurer? Why and ...
9 x 27' - In the midst of a period of reflection on our relationship with the animal world, discover the incredible, funny and moving stories we share with our favorite animals. Animals that care ...
7 x 42' - Leaving it all behind to live deep in the woods for over a month, accompanied by wildlife specialists? That's the challenge taken up by two families who didn't know each other for a ...
This is the second and last part of Raymond Jaunin’s portrait. It took 78-year-old Raymond almost 40 years to build his own boat. Director Séverin Bolle followed him for 4 years until the hull of ...
It took Raymond Jaunin 40 years to complete the magnificent 17-meter sailboat he built with his own hands. Between Switzerland and Majorca, he kept his childhood dream alive for years, refining his ...
A wildlife photographer and fauna guide, Julien Regamey is an outstanding tracker who spends half his time in South Africa. In the Kruger Park, his safaris combine wildlife discovery, species ...
How to walk in balance on a 1" wide highline stretched out between two mountains? Half-man, half-bird, sometimes even blindfolded, extreme highliners defy fear and gravity hundreds of meters above ...
This is the 2nd part of Isaline's journey. Along the way, her trek will serve as an initiation rite, allowing her to spread her wings and eventually take flight. Follow in the foodsteps of an ...
At the age of 16, with her braids blowing in the wind, Isaline undertakes an extraordinary journey. She has decided to leave for a 3-week-trekking adventure alone through the Alps, with her two goats ...
Bernard Garo paints matter, disappearance and monumentality. All his work bears witness to an urgency regarding the slipping away of time and a world bound to collapse. Whether he focuses on ancient ...
The art of cowbells is typical of Switzerland. Here is a moving portraits of two families, one of saddlers and the other of bell founders, who fight to preserve their craft and a Swiss tradition that ...
Born in Zermatt, the Anthamatten brothers are exceptional mountaineers. All three trained guides, they have climbed the highest peaks in the world alongside the greatest. The elder of the three ...
Anyone looking for the soul of Corsica should be heading straight to the GR20 trail, far from the coast swarming with tourists. Walking the GR20 remains the royal way to discover real Corsica. Along ...
Climbing all the peaks over 8'000 meters of altitude on the planet! With already ten 8000 summits to her credit, she’s never been so close to achieving this challenge of a lifetime. If she ...
Alongside legendary wildlife photographers like Vincent Munier, many amateurs scrutinize the beauty of the wild to transcribe its magic. Vincent Chabloz is one of them. An upholsterer-decorator ...
Victor hunts according to the tradition of his grandfather, a Mexican shaman. His field of exploration takes us to the Vaud Jura, Switzerland. Here, over the years, the Indian has become a close ...
Olivier Boulanger is a farrier, like his grandfather and great-grandfather before him. Every day he walks the roads of the Bernese Jura to shoe Grand Prix or Franches-Montagnes horses. With a smile ...
Portrait of a unique breed of cows made famous as early as 1917 by its fights in the Valais region of Switzerland. Once simply called "horned animals", they were so numerous at the foot of the Dent ...
20-year-old Lara, has made her dream come true: she became a buffalo breeder and started her own mozzarella and yoghurt farm while holding her family farm's torch high. Portrait of a young breeder ...
"My night is more beautiful than your day" : this could be the motto of all the characters taking us on a journey in the deep of the night. An astro-photographer observes the nebulae of other ...
Olga Letykai Csonka is a shaman from Chukotka, in the far north-east of Russia. For more than 20 years, she has been living in Switzerland, but her heart and soul remain deeply connected to her ...
Osula, a yak breeder in Valais, Switzerland, decided to cross the Austrian Alps with her animals. After a transalpine journey which led her from the Alps to the Mediterranean, she embarked ...
Can children learn under a tree the same way they would sitting on a chair in a classroom? Spending 100% school time out in the forest: is this just possible? And to what benefit? For one year, a ...
Survivalists and collapsologists have made food autonomy the new trend. Fuelled by no other ideology but their love for nature, a family decided to take action by becoming self-directed vegie ...
They are united by the bonds of blood, those of brotherhood but also by the same passion of bouldering. Fred has marked the history of climbing by pushing back the scale of difficulty in the ...
Discover authentic Northern Sicily through the eyes of an expatriate returning from abroad. Olive plantations and beekeeping are Giuseppe’s passion. The young man deeply fell in love with the ...
Being a veterinarian in the mountains requires an unfailing passion. Detailing the hours or kilometers to do one's job is useless when the need for care makes it necessary to answer the call 24/7. ...
22 x 26' - They live close to us, often without being noticed. Perched in the air or nestled in the hollow of our undergrowth, in the mountains or in our garden, they are the silent witnesses of ...
Portrait of a wildlife photographer whose pictures are collected all over the world. In all his work, Vincent Munier creates a very unique bond between man and life in all forms. In this documentary ...
A portrait of Scottish Isle of Lewis, its wild and powerful landscapes, and its Gaelic-speaking inhabitants, located at the isolated end of the Hebrides archipelago. Beyond Lewis Island, there is ...
Esther Larios Wiget did not intend to be a mountain guide. Encouraged by her brother, she moved forward down this path in her twenties. Today, extreme long-distance tours are no longer part of her ...
How can we avoid avalanches and put a stop to the increase in mountain accidents? With the growing success of freeride and cross-country skiing, the ending season has been three times more deadly ...
Music and mountains are the two main ingredients of the Cosmojazz festival, about to celebrate its tenth anniversary in July 2019. For eight days, free concerts take place at high altitude between ...
The tradition of alpine pasture and "désalpe" is passed down from generation to generation. In the Swiss Jura region, two families settle each summer with their cows. Some make cheese out of their ...
Discover the tradition of Swiss raclette cheese making as if you were a local! At an altitude of 2200 m, the Mille mountain pasture in the Val de Bagnes is the Michellod family's chosen holiday ...
After wandering around the planet, Lito decided to follow in his father's footsteps. He settled down on a heavenly beach on the Pacific coast. He decided to buy several hundred hectares of forest in ...
Portrait of a zootherapist who calls on huskies to treat through the mediation of the animals. In addition to her mushing companions, she also gets horses, goats, hens, rabbits, turtle-doves to bild ...
It is the story of an encounter between a magical place and a ham maturing tradition. The story of two brothers, former senior executives in multinationals who have turned Pata Negra ham ripeners . ...
Scientists have now found the missing evidence proving that nature does heal humans. Whether in the Japanese forest bathing or in the therapeutic garden of the Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris, ...
A trip to Italy with the starred chef Carlo Crisci, owner of the restaurant du Cerf, who gives us a glimpse of his Italian roots and the prime importance of olive in his cuisine and in his own life.
Jeremie Heitz is probably one of the best freeriders of his generation. This young Swiss made a name for himself in "The List", a film in which he skied down a dozen mythical mountains of more than ...
14 x 50' - Who are the people who make it possible for us to enjoy the mountains to the full? Based on the successful "Dîner à la ferme" format, "Gens d'hiver" introduces 7 mountain ...
10 x 6' - A youtuber on the wildlife trail? In this offbeatnew web-doc, Julien Donzé, aka Le Grand JD,and wildlife photographer Fabien Wohlschlagadventure into our forests to observe the ...
10 x 3' - Anne-So, a doctor of biology, and Fabien, an animal filmmaker paieed up as a dynamic duo to to teach us all about animals' fun facts. Did you know that the daman has built-in ...
Portrait of the Swiss navigator Alan Roura during his last preparations for the next Route du Rhum. In February 2017, he finished 12th for his first participation to the Vendée Globe. The event was ...
The Baie de Somme is one of the most beautiful bays in the world. This outstanding protected natural area, recovered twice a day by the tide, is the largest migratory crossroads of Europe. Portrait ...
Acute mountain sickness is as much a problem for experienced alpine climbers and mountaineers as for tourists on a trekking tour. Symptoms range from simple headaches with nausea to complications ...
Portrait of Marco Crettenand, the last cow hoof carer from the canton of Valais, Switzerland, who looks after cows hoofs with shears and not with a grinder. He inherited this traditional method from ...
Immersion in the heart of the forest, with forest engineer Ernst Zürcher, an unusual scientist giving as much credit to ancestral beliefs as to his scientific knowledge. Intermingling science and ...
Can stones tell stories? Travel with a group of young university researchers – archeologists, restorers, workers, divers from France, Switzerland and Spain – as they endeavour to reconstruct the ...
Every year the Muveran Trophies mark the finalrace of the backcountry ski season in Switzerland.Nothing's left to chance when it comes to safety.Patriarch Philippe Bonnet heads the team ofvolunteers ...
Raphaël Mayoraz is a mountain guide, a rescue worker and a geologist specialized in the prevention of natural risks. It’s his job to prevent dangers in a region that is particularly vulnerable to ...
Freddy Nock holds 22 world records and is descended from seven generations of tightrope walkers. He works in spectacular settings: on wires spread taut across a canyon, between electricity pylons or ...
Distillers, collectors and lovers of absinthe tell us the thousand and one lives of absinthe, or Green Fairy, a spirit drink whose roots lie in the heart of Val-de-Travers Switzerland.The legendary ...
Follow one of the on-site vets behind theenclosures at Basel Zoo. Learn all about theanimals and the people who care for them ina model zoo that has carried out pioneeringreproduction programmes ...
Manu Torrent fisherman's hut is a Spanish inn where friendship and sharing are king. On the shores of Lake Geneva, fishing and Vietnamese cuisine go hand in hand without stirring much controversy. ...
For Anne Wiltafsky, cows are more than just a source of milk and meat. For over ten years she's directed a unique centre, in Switzerland, where cows learn to climb stairs, pull a sled or run an ...
Meet the veterinarian who lives life to the fullest, in the air and on the ground. He criss-crosses the Franches Montagnes daily to care for his animal patients, then takes to the air to look down on ...
Discover the hidden world of Marseille's Calanques, where the juxtaposition of azure blue sea and jagged white limestone showcases the Mediterranean. Heaven on earth for walkers and divers, the ...
From the Himalayas to the Andes, from the Rocky Mountains to the Alps, plants from the Thomasia botanical garden offer a miniature tour of the world of alpine plants. From May to October, gardener ...
Visit the Mont-Blanc Massif, today and yesterday, with Hubert Gay-Couttet, a member of a family that has photography in the blood. Photos in hand, he walks in the footsteps of his forebears, who ...
4 x 42' - The experience of a lifetime!Eleven candidates from various backgrounds and of different ages take up the daunting challenge of the Grand Traversée des Alpes. Bound by a fierce passion ...
This is the story of two friends' dream. One is a forest ranger, the other is a woodcutter. Both in love with their forests, they did everything to be one day able to age wine in a barrel made of an ...
Discover Vercofly, the hike-and-fly paragliding competition. Competitors have four days to tag nine high-altitude huts and four lakes between the Turtmanntal and the Val de Bagne, in Switzerland, on ...
Local dialects are for some is the language of childhood, of one's first emotions, few words that remain at the back of the ear. For others, it is a language in its own right, the Franco-Provençal, ...
For some, patois is a language of childhood, of one's first emotions. For others, it is a language in its own right, the Franco-Provençal, and it must be defended at all costs as it is threatened, ...
Winter in the hills of the Côte d'Azur and Liguriais brightened by the froth of countless yellow mimosa blossoms. Feted, cultivated, visited, the mimosa is today the symbol of an entire region. ...
10 x3' - France’s biggest river in terms of depth andvolume, the Rhône has always been channeledto advance human development. How has theriver evolved? How can we strike a balancebetween society's ...
6 x 45' - Discover all the facets of a ski season in the magnificence scenery of an iconic resort of the Swiss Alps. Filmed in Les Diablerets, this documentary series takes us alongside all the ...
6 x 26' - The main characters of this new adventure are a group of “ weekend hikers ” who, while having never met, face the daunting task of completing a tour of the famous Matterhorn in 8 ...
5 x 26' - This reality TV show follows a mythical itinerary in the Heart of the Alps : Chamonix-Verbier-Zermatt. 5 men and 7 women who have never met and are not seasoned mountain climbers rise to ...
