Return of the adventurer Mike Horn: "I did everything to stay alive"

Louise Bernard with Alexis Patri 11:01 am, November 04, 2021

INTERVIEW

A great adventurer returns.

Mike Horn returns Friday night to RMC Découverte, with a series of four documentaries titled

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She will return to her most memorable adventures, with personal video archives and testimonies from relatives, especially her daughters, and experts.

This return, not as a host as in recent years on M6, but as an adventurer, is important as he explains at the microphone of the Europe 1

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"When I became a host, life was more shallow. There weren't a lot of depths. I was just better known. And being famous isn't always good," says Mike Horn.

"But being for the right reasons and for the values ​​you want to share with people is good."

Family values, surpassing oneself and sharing. 

A drop in polar water at -25 ° C

RMC Découverte hits hard for the first evening around Mike Horn, with the broadcast of his most extreme adventure: his expedition to the North Pole, the one where he almost died. It was in 2019. He had then spent 87 days crossing the Arctic with another explorer, Børge Ousland, in extreme conditions: darkness, cold, thinner ice in some places. Three months spent without supplies and without any outside help. 

Viewers will follow this adventure thanks to the images filmed by the two explorers, broadcast for the first time.

And in particular this incredible moment when Mike Horn, very close to the finish, fell into the water at -25 ° C because of the ice that was too thin.

His life expectancy is then two minutes.

He absolutely has to warm up before freezing to death.

Mike Horn gets by thanks to a superhuman mind, his experience, and also his lucky star, as the adventurer says.

He himself has trouble explaining how he can still be alive.

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"We know that when the ice breaks and you fall into the water, you have very little chance of survival. When that happens to you, you almost accept that these are your last moments. But I have it all. made to stay alive ", he specifies at the microphone of Europe 1." It has changed something in my life. The value of life changes. I give it more value. I still have to do my explorations, but maybe differently. I don't have to always push my limits and near death to feel alive. Today, I'm happy to be alive. " 

 can be seen Thursday evening at 9:05 pm on RMC Découverte, channel 24 of TNT.