Heïdi Sevestre

This summer I spent an hour talking with Dale Simonson for his podcast, Carpe Diem: Live Your Dream, and the episode is now online. We talked about Under Antarctica. The eighty days Matthieu Tordeur and I spent crossing the continent on kite-skis, the four thousand kilometres, the two ground-penetrating radars we dragged behind us to map ice that almost nobody ever sees, and the strange morning at the Soviet Pole of Inaccessibility, 3,724 metres up, where a bust of Lenin still looks out over...

Excited to share the talks coming up over the next few months. There is a lot more to come, and I will add information as it is confirmed. September 20 — Avesnes-sur-Helpe (59-France) - 9:30-11:30 CEST - Cinéma Le Caméo - 51 Rue des Prés. Free - Open to all. Registration required here! September 21 — Paris-Saclay Agro Campus, AgroParisTech (91-France) - 16:30-17:30 CEST. Free - Open to students. September 23 — Darmstadt (Germany), 40th Anniversary of EUMETSAT (European Organisation for the...

A few weeks ago Juba from Cigcola from Smelly Feet Records got in touch about a series called The Expansion, asking a simple question: what were you listening to out there? I sent back an embarrassingly long answer. Three months on a kite, eight to ten and sometimes twelve hours a day, with a landscape that barely changes — you have a lot of time to fill. So I'd treated Antarctica as a blank page and used it to catch up on every book I'd ever meant to read. Mostly audiobooks, if I'm honest....