The International Festival of Nature, Adventure, and Exploration Images “Explorimages” has become the must-attend event on the French Riviera for enthusiasts of beautiful images and vast wilderness. In the exceptional setting of Phoenix Park, come discover with your family some of the most beautiful adventures experienced at all altitudes and depths, across all latitudes and longitudes.
About fifteen documentary films will be subject to public vote in the following categories: human and sporting adventure, scientific adventure, nature and environment.
In addition to the screenings, meetings with adventurers, conferences/debates, book signings, photographic exhibitions, demonstrations, and associative and professional stands are organized.
Some examples of the topics, destinations, and adventurers featured this year:
• International Polar Year: The Arctic – In the footsteps of Paul Emile Victor – Climate change in polar ice and its global repercussions.
• The wonders of the mineral world: extraordinary journeys to the center of the earth and in the mountains of the American West to discover with Daniel Chailloux, Michel Randa, Eugenio Andriguetto: Lechuguilla: the most beautiful cave in the world in New Mexico, geological splendors of Arizona and Utah, Crystal Palace of the Black Mountain in France.
• Surprising paleontological discoveries in South America (Patagonia and Brazil)
• Sporting and human adventures:
• Maud Fontenoy for a world tour by sailing “against the current”
• From Beijing to Lhasa by bike, in the footsteps of Evariste Huc, with Jean Guillemot and Stéphanie Huc
• The great Inca road, on foot in the Andes, with Laurent Granier and Megan Son
• Flying with condors, in the Peruvian Andes, with Angelo d’Arrigo
• Discovery and preservation of biodiversity
• Forests of Venezuela and Galapagos Islands with Bruno Pambour
• Alaska in full scale with Hervé Ortéga
• Discoveries of the past:
• Mystery of the whale
• In the footsteps of giant sloths
[Complete Program](https://www.ville-nice.fr/ressources/programme_2008.pdf)
