Viktor Boyarsky

L'expédition Transantarctica, avec le docteur Jean-Louis Étienne, s'est déroulée avec succès entre juillet 1989 et mars 1990. Six hommes de nationalités différentes et sept mois pour traverser l'Antarctique d'est en ouest, afin de sensibiliser le monde sur le devenir de ce continent. Au Sud du Sud permet de vivre cette grande aventure humaine qui, des premières rencontres entre les participants jusqu'au succès final, a duré plus de trois années.

In 1989, the German polar explorer Arved Fuchs and the South Tyrolean mountaineer Reinhold Messner set out together to reach the South Pole on skis without sled dogs or motor technology and then cross the entire Antarctic. There are problems right from the start because the onward transport to the starting point by plane cannot be carried out on time. Finally, the adventurers set off from Patriot Hills Base Camp on the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf to the Pole. The completely different character traits of the two men quickly emerge. Messner is impetuous and pushes for speed. The calm Fuchs divides his strength and consistently follows his pace during all planned breaks. On New Year's Eve 1989, the two men are warmly welcomed by the crew of the US Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. But the much larger and more dangerous part of their adventurous continental crossing still lies ahead of them. The 3-part documentary shows one of the last great adventures of modern times in impressive pictures.