He’s barely trying to get over the end of the star Academy that, already, some news comes to weigh down his morale. Indeed, this Saturday February 3, 2024, Nikos Aliagas presented the last bonus of the star Academybefore the return of a new season in the coming months. If the emblematic host of TF1 thought he could take some time for himself after these hard months of work, he shared a very
bad news about his account
formerly Twitter.
“A grown-up has left for the ultimate journey, RIP Jean Malaurie”, wrote the presenter in the caption of a photo in which the anthropogeographer appears. Indeed, the latter died this Monday, February 5, 2024 at the age of 101, as his son Guillaume announced this Monday at theAFP. The ethnologist and explorer of the Far North died in Dieppe (Seine-Maritime).
A grown-up has left for the ultimate journey #ripjeanmalauriehttps://t.co/0wY4balse2
— Nikos Aliagas (@nikosaliagas) February 5, 2024
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A man passionate about the “cold”
During his life, he led numerous missions to the North Pole, and also worked to make ethnology accessible to the general public. Founder of the collection Human Earthat Plon editions, his wishes will be granted. Indeed, Jean Malaurie always wanted his ashes to be scattered in Uummannaq, Greenland, where it all began for him. According to the information from our colleagues at Télérama
this will indeed be achieved.
Our colleagues recall that this great explorer spent ten years of his life between Greenland and Siberia and notably wrote a book in tribute to the Inuit, The last kings of Thule published by Plon. Nikos Aliagasas well as many other personalities, wanted to pay tribute to the great man he was throughout his life.
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