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Patagonia French Expedition

Postby Phil Winkler » Feb 23, 2010 12:02 pm

We just received a post card from Jean-Francois Pernette from Patagonia with a photo of 3 bare chested Kewanix native ladies on the front with the white dots all over their arms and chests. He said it is raining heavily and they like that (??) and the karst and scenery is fantastic. It is summertime down there now, of course. In another thread I posted a link to Richard Maire's slide presentation of the 2008 expedition.
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Re: Patagonia French Expedition

Postby Olivier Testa » Mar 22, 2010 11:20 am

The whole team just returned home after a 2-month expedition in Patagonia that ended with the earthquake in Conception, Chile.

As Jean-Francois wrote, we had awful weather conditions (2000mm/78'' of cumulated rainfall in january!), with several storms (wind speed over 90mph), and 3 days of sunshine!

However, the expedition was a real success, with some remote untouched areas prospected thanks to the help of the french and Chilean army helicopters. Many scientific and archaeological data were collected, more than a hundred caves explored.
You can read the logbook and look at the pictures on http://www.centre-terre.fr

After "Le Mystere de la Baleine" (The Mystery of the Whale), the 52' movie presented in Kerrville last year, a new movie is due soon.

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Re: Patagonia French Expedition

Postby Phil Winkler » Mar 22, 2010 11:58 am

Olivier,

Thanks for posting and the pictures are fantastic. Can we expect an English translation at some point of the journals? Tell JF hello for us.
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Re: Patagonia French Expedition

Postby Olivier Testa » Mar 22, 2010 12:26 pm

The journals will not be translated into english soon, i'm afraid... After 2 months in the field, we all have a huge amount of work to do!

However, with an automatic online translator like
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.centre-terre.fr%2Fultima2010%2Fjournal-11-01-2010.html, you can get the meaning of everything I think.
All the links are also automatically translated, so you can browse the journals as if it was all in english.

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Re: Patagonia French Expedition

Postby Phil Winkler » Mar 22, 2010 1:57 pm

Thanks, Olivier,

That works very well to get the sense of the journals.
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Re: Patagonia French Expedition

Postby Evan G » Mar 22, 2010 1:58 pm

Thank you for posting the journals, Olivier! Amazing photos and Karst area. Looks as if you have many years of exploring to come....
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