See also: Basket maker
Nicolas Vanier (born the May 5th 1962 with the Senegal) is an adventurer, writer and Réalisateur French.
Biography
Nicolas Vanier is impassioned for the far North as of adolescence, it begins his forwardings while crossing to foot the Lapland in 1982. In 1983, it attacks the Québécois far North on the traces of the Indians Montagnais. It explores more before Canadian north while crossing the peninsula of New-Quebec-Labrador with sledges with dogs. This exploration will be the work object first, Far North and of documentary televised for Antenne 2 (since become France 2).He traverses in 1986 and 1987 the Rocky Mountains and Alaska, in three stages, with the traditional means of transport of these areas. A part is carried out with Cheval, on the basis of the Wyoming until the Colombia-British. Twelve horses follow forwarding, five are used as mounting with the team, made up of four men and a woman, the seven others carry the equipment. This first part of the voyage, for lack of experiment as regards pack, was for great part carried out with foot. The second phase is carried out on water, with the descent of Yukon in Radeau of fir tree and the passage of the lakes and rivers in Canoë. The third stage until the Bering Strait is carried out with attachments of huskies.
In 1990 and 1991, he undertakes the crossing of the Siberia, on the basis of Mongolia to join the Arctic Ocean, for a forwarding of 7.000 kilometers. Anxious to adopt the local means of displacement, more adapted to these voyages of the extreme, its team uses the horse, the pony, the sledge with dogs, the reindeers and the canoes to move.
In 1993, it turns over to Siberia, where it divides the daily newspaper of a family of wandering stockbreeders evene S.
Of 1994 with 1995, it undertakes with his wife and her daughter then one year old and half, a voyage one year through the Rock ones and Yukon as far as Alaska. They begin their tour with horse, spend the winter in a wood hut which they build themselves and finish their tour in sledges with dogs.
Throughout his tours, Nicolas Vanier developed for the dogs of Traîneau a passion and an experiment which it puts to the test in 1996 while taking part in the Yukon Quest, race of 1.600 kilometers through the Canadian far North and Alaska, considered to be most difficult in the world.
During the years which follow, it prepares with the white Odyssée , a voyage 8.600 kilometers which it carries out in 1999 with its team in sledge with dogs. It starts from Skagway in Alaska to arrive until Quebec less than 100 days later. It meets at the time of this voyage Norman Winther, which will play later in its film the Last Trapper .
It takes part in 2000 in the installation of association the slipping Armchairs , which concerns to make available to the handicapped people engine the practice from the excursion in sledges with dogs in the world . In 2002 and 2003, it takes part in several race in sledge with dogs, of which again Yukon Quest.
In 2005, it launches in the the Alps, on the skiable field of the Doors of the Sun and of High-Maurienne-Vanoise, the Large odyssey, a race of huskies, first of this scale to Europe. The 2nd edition will take place in January 2006.
Nicolas Vanier prepares for winter 2005/2006 the Siberian Odyssée , a tour of 8.000 km and 4 months through Siberia which it will carry out at a rate of 80 kilometers per day with an attachment of ten dogs, of Irkoutsk to Moscow. The departure is envisaged on December 1st, 2005 on the edges of the Lac Baïkal.
Nicolas Vanier also has, with his fellow-member Alain Brenichot, created in Quebec, with 60 kilometers of the lake Midsummer's Day, the Camp of the barks, base camp which proposes adventures in the Far North.
Catalog of films
; Short films and documentary- 1988: Caravan
- 1988: open Rivers
- 1988: Division of water (preceded with various recoveries)
- 1989: Documentary on the race of the trappers in Labrador
- 1997: One winter of dogs
- 2007: Large Odyssey 2007 to ensavoir
; Feature-length films
- 1992: In the north of the winter
- 1995: the Child of snows
- 1999: the white Odyssey
- 2004: the Last Trapper
- 2003: gold under snow
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