Nicolas Vanier
Nicolas Vanier ( born May 5, 1962 in Dakar, Senegal ) is a French adventurer, writer and filmmaker. He has especially traveled to the far north.
Life and Travel
Nicolas Vanier attended the agricultural school Montargis. At 20, he crossed Lapland on foot. The following year he was traveling in the north of Quebec City and was following the footsteps of the Indian population of the Montagnais. 1986/87 Vanier and his team traveled 7000 kilometers through the territories of the Rocky Mountains and Alaska, Wyoming, to the Bering Strait. Transport were 12 horses, 24 Husky, a raft and two canoes. This adventure was held in three films and 1988 were built as two books " Le Triathlon historique " and "Solitude North ".
The crossing of Siberia from south to north over a period of more than one and a half years was in 1990 /1991. There were 7000 km through the tundra of Mongolia. To the Arctic Ocean, which he put back with the help of traditional means of transport (horses, dog sledding, reindeer, ponies and canoes ) Is the film " Au nord de l' hiver" ( In the north the winter ) as well as his book " Transsibérie, le mythe sauvage " about this expedition. In 1993 Nicolas Vanier at the life of a nomad family of Eveny in the Siberian Arctic part. He tells this story in his book " La vie en nord". In May 1994 his novel "Solitude blanche " was released. With his wife and of the eighteen -month-old daughter Vanier travels 1995 year on horseback through the Rocky Mountains and the Yukon Territory. After that, they go by dogsled 1500 km to Alaska. His book to " The Snow Child " appears on 20 December 1995, the film to travel on DVD.
1999 appeared in Robert Laffont publishing the book The White Odyssey about the trip through Northern Canada from Skagway, Alaska to Quebec with sled dogs ( 8600 km ) in less than a hundred days. Nicolas Vanier founded in 2000 the organization " Les armchairs Glissant " ("the slide chairs " - analogous to a wheelchair) that allows people with physical disabilities to go dog sledding and to prepare for the big dogsled race in Alaska. In the winter of 2003 Vanier began in Yukon with the shooting of his first film with fictional plot and feature-length film " The Last Trapper ", a production of MC4. After that he published the children's picture book " The Last Trapper ", and the picture book of the same name. In January 2005, he launched The Great Odyssey ( Grande Odyssée ), a 1000- kilometer race through the Alps, where the best mushers in the world competed against each other. 2009 will be his second feature film " Loup " (Eng. The Boy and the Wolf ), who describes the difficult coexistence of Siberian reindeer nomads and wolves and the return of people to their nature -bound traditions. Vanier lives in the Loire Valley.
Works
Publications
- The snow child. A family traveling through the snowy wastes of Canada, Piper, Munich 2001, ISBN 978-3-492-23720-8.
- The white odyssey, Malik, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-89029-170-8.
- Adventure in the snow desert, Knesebeckstraße, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-89660-238-1.
- Gold under the snow Malik, Munich 2005 ISBN 3-89029-305-0.
- The son of the snow desert, Pieper, ISBN 3-492-24012-7.
- The white Storm continuation of the snow desert, Pieper, ISBN 3-492-24311-8.