Haroun tazieff biography of mahatma gandhi

11-MAY-1914 - 06-FEB-1998

Haroun Tazieff was born in Warsaw, Poland, in 1914.

He was a leading French volcano expert, photographer and director.

19THE HI WORLD OF VOLCANOES by Haroun Tazieff WE still commonly hear it said that volcanic upheavals are far less violent today than they were in.

Haroun Tazieff quote: In all ages volcanoes have frightened, fascinated and attracted man, because what they hold is at once terrifying, splendid.

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He wrote and produced numerous documentaries on volcanoes. He even had one Oscar nomination for his documentary Le Vulcan Interdit (The Forbidden Volcano) in 1966. During the early 1950s he travelled with Jaques Cousteau.

Although Haroun Tazieff did not do much cave research, he is an important caver for his few but outstanding contributions. He was a member of the exploration team of Gouffre Pierre-Saint-Martin in the Pyrenees on the border between France and Spain.

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In 1951, 1952 and 1953 a team of cavers tried to explore the deepest cave of the World, which it then was for decades. He made a documentary of the cave and the search for the underground river, which was later used by a hydroelectric power station.

This story is told really tantalising by Norbert Casteret in Sondeurs d'abimes.

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