[HIGHLIGHTS] “A giant”: death at 101 of ethnologist Jean Malaurie, specialist in the Far North

Jean Malaurie was an explorer, scientist and adventurer. He spent ten years of his life between Greenland and Siberia.

He wrote a famous book in homage to the Inuit, “The Last Kings of Thule” He was the first man to reach the geomagnetic North Pole in 1951. He was also the first Westerner to discover, that year, the "alley of the whales", a monument in northeast Siberia with a shamanic spirit, ignored until its identification in the 1970s.