Alban Michon

Passionate about polar regions and scuba diving, Alban Michon is a French explorer and adventurer who has participated in exceptional expeditions. In 2010, he dived to the geographic North Pole.

In 2012, he traveled 1000 km by sea kayak along the coast of Greenland and dived under icebergs.

Alban Michon has always had a taste for adventure. At eleven, he discovered scuba diving, at 22 he bought the scuba diving school of Tignes (Savoie, France) and the underground diving center Vasques du Quercy (Lot, France).

Alban quickly becomes the reference for ice and underground diving, attracting professionals and non-professionals as students of these unusual dives.

In 2010, Alban Michon's passion for adventure and the polar regions took him to the North Pole for a project called "Deepsea Under the Pole". A forty-five day expedition during which he made several dives under the ice, in some of the most inhospitable places on the planet.

Two years later, he and his friend Vincent Berthet took a sea kayak and independently ventured along the east coast of Greenland. The two-month experience, which resulted in the documentary "The White Trap", first broadcast in 2013, thrilled hundreds of thousands of viewers and helped bring Alban to the attention of the general public.

Human contact is central to Alban Michon's professional approach. Through his work as a teacher and guide for Abyssworld in Siberia and Antarctica, Alban shares his experience, spreads his resolutely positive philosophy and his energy that can move mountains.

"We have no taste for unnecessary risk, no inclination for heroic suffering, we do not seek to challenge nature. What attracts us so much?"