The explorer, host in his spare time with the shows
A l'état sauvage
and
The Island
, is about to take up a new challenge.
That of leaving for four years on an expedition around the world aboard his sailboat.
This journey already has a meaningful name:
What's left,
to understand in French "what remains".
“I will go back to exactly where I was 30 years ago.
And I'm going to compare the sites using photos and films taken at the time
,” explained Mike Horn to the
Nice Matin
newspaper .
From Greenland to Australia via the Amazon, Patagonia, Antarctica, New Zealand, Asia, northern Canada or even Alaska... The crew will have
This expedition, the adventurer did not do it only for him but especially to sensitize the general public.
“We are going to make a series of seven documentaries.
It's in negotiation with
Netflix
.
Today, a lot of money is spent on finding out but there are not enough action programs.
The idea is to show the reality and to propose solutions.”
"Make their idea feasible"
These proposed solutions can come from anywhere.
The objective is, during these four years, to materialize a dozen environmental projects chosen via a dedicated platform: Pangea X.
“We have created a platform for calls for projects to safeguard the sea. ten in the end.
Then we set up an MBA at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, where young people come on weekends.
They are taught to make a business plan to make their idea achievable.
It is only then that they get on the boat and realize their project.
We then become an execution platform.”