An American C-130 plane landed at the Russian base Vostok in Antarctica in 1984, carrying three French scientists on a mission to collect ancient ice to study Earth's past and predict the future of human beings.
Glaciologist Claude Lorius had a revelation in 1965 while drinking whiskey with ancient ice in Antarctica, leading to the idea of trapped air in ice providing insights into Earth's history and humanity's destiny.
French glaciologist Jean Jouzel recalls the triumphant arrival of Antarctic ice samples in Paris in 1985, with the oldest ice being 160,000 years old, providing valuable information about the Earth's past climate.
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