When the scientist gets high

Agate presents its current favorite.
Within our collections, numerous illustrations or photographs deserve to be exhibited for their aesthetic quality or originality. Today, we are climbing the Tré-la-tête glacier.

Tré-la-tête glacier, the mountain packing, 1930

This photograph was taken in 1930 over a tongue of the Tré-la-Tête glacier. It reveals the mountaineering equipment used by forest and water agents working on glaciology. The bag holder takes the photograph, as photography has been a means of study and communication since the late 1880s.

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  • Agate Takes the Holiday Road..
    A caravan of vehicles on the pastoral path of Séret for the mechanical milking demonstration. Séret mountain (Savoie). By Lucien Anchierri (photographer) - Year 1962.
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    Agate Takes the Holiday Road..

    Head for the mountains with our favorite photo of the moment, which takes us back to 1962 on the road to the Savoyard summits. A caravan of vehicles travels in single file along the Montagne de Séret pastoral path to watch a demonstration of mechanical milking on the mountain pasture. A summery nod to a time when tradition and modernity went hand in hand.

  • The Hundred Horse Chestnut Tree
    Chestnut trees of Mount Etna, grafted (polyparabiosis) in ancient times.
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    The Hundred Horse Chestnut Tree

    Agate shares its current favorite discovery. Today, let’s travel together to the slopes of Mount Etna in Italy to meet a remarkable natural giant: the Hundred Horse Chestnut Tree.