The documentary follows the photographer Vincent Munier and the writer Sylvain Tesson on a mission to catch a glimpse of a rare snow leopard in Tibet. By Ben Kenigsberg When you purchase a ticket for ...

How can cinema bring the issue of climate change to the public’s attention? To address this, the Cannes Film Festival invited seven film and documentary makers to share their vision on humanity’s ...

In La panthère des neiges/The Velvet Queen, a feature directed by Marie Amiguet based on an idea by renowned wildlife photographer Vincent Munier, French writer and traveler Sylvain Tesson accompanies ...

To celebrate the 200th anniversary of Louis Vuitton, the Maison’s founder, Louis Vuitton unveiled a new nugget in its Travel Book Series: Mars. Renowned French travel writer Sylvain Tesson and Belgian ...

In the busy whirlwind of daily life, there is rarely a moment to stop and contemplate in the world. The Velvet Queen encourages us to do exactly that. Filmed among the highest peaks and wild plains of ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Consolations of the Forest: Alone in a Cabin in the Middle Taiga, by Sylvain Tesson, translated by Linda Coverdale, ...

Consolations of the Forest: Alone in a Cabin in the Middle Taiga. By Sylvain Tesson, translated by Linda Coverdale. Allen Lane; 239 pages; £16.99. To be published in America in September by Rizzoli Ex ...

Sylvain Tesson has walked from Russia to India, participated in archaeological expeditions in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and wintered alone in a cabin on a lake in Siberia. He earned a diplôme d’études ...

Sylvain Tesson (born 26 April 1972) is a French writer and traveller born in Paris. He has engaged in a number of unusual travels and expeditions which are the basis for his books. Among his most ...