Antarctica: Ice & Sky

Icy, inaccessible and beautiful - the snowy landscapes of Antarctica seem to stretch endlessly. But the millennia-old ice hides a secret: countless trapped air bubbles from prehistoric times bear witness to the climate of times gone by and its transformation by humans. Luc Jacquet looks back at the first expeditions of the French scientist Claude Lorius, who explored the ice as a young man under the most extreme conditions. He succeeded in tracing the climate history of our planet back 800,000 years and uncovered a bitter truth ...