Doctor of Medicine
Intern in Surgery
Grand Officier de l'Ordre National du Mérite
Commandeur de la Légion d'Honneur
Member of the Académie des Technologies
Gold Medal of the Société de Géographie
Fellow of the American Explorer Club
Fellow of the National Geographic Society
Jean-Louis Etienne is a doctor specialising in nutrition and sports biology. He has taken part in numerous expeditions to the Himalayas, Greenland and Patagonia.
A tireless defender of the planet, he has led several educational expeditions to raise awareness of the polar regions and to understand the role they play in the life and climate of the earth. And in April 2010, he successfully completed the first crossing of the Arctic Ocean by balloon.
He was the first man to reach the North Pole alone and achieved the longest crossing of the Antarctic by dog sled: 6300 km.
From 2007 to 2008, Jean-Louis Etienne was Director General of the Institut Océanographique de Paris and the Musée océanographique de Monaco.
During the summer of 2015 he hosted the weekday programme "On Refait la planète" from 7.15 to 8pm on RTL.
In 2006, Jean-Louis Etienne was promoted to the rank of Officer of the Legion of Honour and is Commander of the Legion of Honour.
Author of several stories, The Pole Walker'., South Pole, The Inner Pole'.The explorer had to postpone his new expedition in 2008 after his airship was accidentally destroyed.
