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Priscilla Telmon is a French photographer, travel writer, documentarian and television presenter, member of the Society of French Explorers. She carries out exploration voyages and humanitarian missions.

After briefly modeling, she began studying ethnomedicine. She also indulges in climbing Parisian monuments with Alain Robert, the “spider man”. Beginning a career as an independent photographer and journalist, she has devoted herself, since 1997, to expeditions, trips and environmental protection actions.

She carried out several expeditions and crossings, mainly in Central Asia and Upper Asia.
In 1997, she crossed the Dolpo clandestinely in the company of the travel writer Sylvain Tesson and the traveler Alexandre Poussin.

In 1998, she climbed Kilimanjaro in Tanzania and crossed the Atlas massif on foot and on horseback.

At the age of 23, she began crossing Central Asia on horseback in 1999-2000 with Sylvain Tesson. This journey led to his collaboration on two works, La Chevauchée des steppes in 2001 and Carnets de Steppes: on horseback across central Asia in 2002.

At the age of 27, in 2003-2004, her solo crossing of the Himalayas on foot in the footsteps of Alexandra David-Néel took her through Vietnam, Yunnan, Tibet, Sikkim and India. She lets out her joy at each pass crossed and her rage at each of her arrests. Having visited the Potala Palace, she indicates that the citadel is “empty, dead, silent”. This journey culminated in the making of the documentary Journey to Forbidden Tibet, which earned her the special prize from the Senate as a sportswoman.

In 2010, she published the photographic album Himalayas, in the footsteps of Alexandra David-Néel.

From 1998, she participated in various radio and television programs as a host or columnist.

She has been a reporter for various magazines and news agencies and given numerous conferences on Central Asia and the Himalayas. His reports today are mainly dedicated to the protection of the environment around the world and ancestral cultures.

Yann Arthus-Bertrand is one of the most famous mustachioed people in France. A recognized photographer, he gained notoriety in 1999, following the publication of the book “The Earth seen from the sky”, a worldwide bestseller sold more than three million copies.

Born in 1946 in Paris, Yann-Arthus Bertrand is the descendant of a famous family of medalists and jewelers. Very quickly, he moved away from the family business to turn to an artistic career. He led a brief life as an actor, from the age of 17, but he quickly abandoned the seventh art to devote himself to a devouring passion for nature. In 1967, he was director of a nature reserve in Allier.

In 1976, at the age of 30, his life took a new turn and he moved to Kenya, with his wife Anne. It was there that he became a professional photographer, working for three years on a family of lions. This adventure made him a recognized journalist photographer and allowed him to publish the book “Lions” in 1983. From then on, the globetrotter continued reporting. It was in the 1980s that Yann Arthus-Bertrand discovered a passion for aerial photography that would make him famous.

In 2006, he established himself on television with the program “Vu du Ciel” which enjoyed enormous success. A figure in ecology, Yann Arthus-Bertrand is undoubtedly the only champion of sustainable development to be able to compete with Nicolas Hulot on the media scene, even if the thousands of hours spent aboard helicopters or planes make many environmentalists cringe, just like his support displayed for the Football World Cup scheduled for Qatar in 2022 in stadiums … air-conditioned.

Didier Regnier is a French television host.

1978: winner of The Race Around the World.
1984: host and editor-in-chief of Le Grand raid.
1985: senior reporter for the human rights magazine Résistances.
1988: host of Sagarmatha 88, first direct connection from Everest.

He was host of “Samedi passion” with Gérard Holtz, “Aventures voyages”, “Samedi adventure”, editor-in-chief of “C’est au programme” and official presenter of the Aventure et Découverte festival.

He published “L’aventure du grand Raid” with Robert Laffont in 1986.