By Nadjet Cherigui (text) and Philippe Bourseiller (photos)
The arrival at Ilulissat is always greeted by the barking of dogs, penned in packs at the edge of the city, around small huts where the owners store food or equipment. This noisy welcome committee has almost become a ritual for Philippe Bourseiller, who knows the region well, in particular this small town nestled in the north-west of Greenland, made up of a multitude of charming colorful houses and posed like little arch cubes -in heaven on an immaculate white coat. Lover of the Far North, Philippe Bourseiller is a photographer, explorer, mountaineer, speleologist.
In short, an adventurer and a committed man who has been surveying the most extreme, icy and hostile terrains for many years to testify, above all, to their great fragility. "Here, in the course of the 2000s, the pack ice fell by almost 1000 kilometers due to climate change," he says. She
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