Greenland
2007

Luc is and adventurer, author, and member of the Explorers Club. Graduated from Centrale Paris, he is president of Sagax, a US-based investment and management advisory firm. 

He has pursued a personal goal of traveling extensively across the globe, frequently with family; photographing and reporting from remote places to raise awareness for global causes. 

Luc has led an expedition to Antarctica in 2003 to highlight the region’s importance as a regulator of global weather systems. Additionally, in 2007, he led a team to Greenland to explore the effects of climate on the migrating bird populations. His voyages have resulted in the publishing of two books: Antarctica Adventure (2004) and Greenland Impressions (2007).

He lives with his wife, Mary, and their two daughters, Flaam and Aïnhoa, between Greenwich, Connecticut and in Paris, France.

A life dedicated to the wildlife of the Arctic
- Researcher Nature Reserves Network
- President of GREA (Group for Research in Arctic Ecology)
- Working for conservation agencies in France since 1993
- Numerous trips in the Arctic regions: Svalbard, Siberia, Arctic Canada and mainly NE Greenland.

Brigitte was educated as an environmental scientist. She teaches at University of Bourgogne (Dijon, France). She has participated in over 30 arctic expeditions since 1990 (18 with the GREA scientific missions, and 8 as a logistician for the Barneo base camp near the North Pole).

For the Sagax Greenland expedition, Brigitte is in charge of logistics and communications. She also assists in the flora and ivory gulls research program. In addition, she will run our filming activities along with preparing educational programs.

Adrian works as a researcher for the division of Conservation Biology at the University of Bern and for the Museum of Natural History in Fribourg (Switzerland).

He is particularly interested in bird migration and bird conservation. In the past years he led several projects dealing with satellite telemetry in different bird species.

He participated in 3 different expeditions in the High Arctic, especially in NE Greenland and researched the Low Arctic several times.

Ben is a professional high mountain guide in Chamonix. He has done over 300 ascents in European mountains, including 10 first ascents.

Has summited the Everest and reached the South and North poles where he regularly returns [TBC]. Ben was the first Frenchman to reach the North pole by foot from Russia (1000kms - 55 days) and the South Pole from Berkner island (1350kms - 50 days).

With he ascent of Everest, he is one of only three mountaineers in the world to have reached the three poles.  Ben will also lead our paragliding attempts.

Son of Brigitte and Olivier, “mascotte” of the expedition. At age 4, Vladimir has already four arctic expeditions under the belt (North and East Greenland 2003-04-05, Alaska 2006).

At age 13, Baptiste is already an accomplished mountaineer, having followed is father Ben both on foot in the Alps, and in the air on his paraglider.

Plays the Piano and violin. Took up Rugby in school last year! Likes Art classes more than math, English. Likes to cook, especially bake. Has a cockatiel named Cuicui. Climbed Kilimanjaro over 1 ½ week when she was12.

In her words: “I’m Ainhoa and I turned 14 on April 11th. I will be entering 9th grade in the fall at the French-American School of New York, a bi-lingual school outside of New York. I began playing both the piano and violin when I was 6 and I still spend a lot of time playing today. I learn mostly classical music with my teacher but I love to play pieces from the Beatles, Billy Joel etc. This year played basketball for my school and also started rugby. They play a lot in France, the world cup was held there last year. It’s a hard sport but a lot of fun! At school, I mostly like art class, I love to paint (I find it a lot more fun then math and physics ;) ). I enjoy cooking, especially baking deserts (all sorts of chocolate cakes, cookies) In February 2007, when I was 12, I climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania with my sister and father over 2 weeks. The climb took a huge amount of effort and was very demanding, both physically and mentally. I was so proud when I got to the top and finally saw the sunrise. I am glad to say I climbed one of the seven summits! The best reward was that we raised over $10,000 for the Save Darfur Organization at the same time! Every summer I spend a month in France to visit my family. We spend time horseback riding, swimming at the beach in St Malo, or shopping in Paris. I also sing soprano in a choir with my sister and I’ve been in a few school plays. I hope that one day I will be able to be on Broadway!”