Jamy Gourmaud, the famous French journalist, was filming in Haute-Savoie on 30 June 2020.
He was working on a new issue on the theme "Climate Change and Mountains", for his program "Le Monde de Jamy" [translation: The World of Jamy].
Together with geomorphologist Ludovic Ravanel, Jamy Gourmaud went to the Aiguille du Midi (3,842-metre-tall or 12,605 ft).
Together, they abseiled on the northern borehole. Suspended at the end of a 60-meter rope, they recovered temperature data from the Edytem laboratory, that is, 10 years of readings at 3,842 meters above sea level.
After this sequence, Jamy Gourmaud joined another scientist, Florence Magnin, to witness a geophysical manipulation. By sending an electric current into the rock, we can thus determine the state of the permafrost (temperature range, the water content of the rock, etc.).
The broadcast of “Le monde de Jamy” is scheduled for February 2021, as more footage is still to be shot. Jamy will go to Grenoble to address the issue of avalanches. He will also travel to Switzerland in the Valais Alps to study the torrential lavas of the Illigraben, a huge cirque or rocky bowl set high above the Rhone valley.
Finally, in September 2020, Jamy will return to Chamonix, to look at the Taconnaz glacier.
Source @Le Dauphine
