In the summer 2027, I will embark on one of the greatest adventures of my life: descending alone the legendary Yukon River, from Marsh Lake, in Canada, to Emmonak, in Alaska, where its waters meet the Bering Sea.

A journey of over 3,200 kilometers, undertaken by canoe, without a motor, in the heart of one of the last great wilderness areas on the planet.

One man. One canoe. Nearly 100 days on the Yukon.

For nearly three months, my daily life will be dictated by the current, the weather, and nature. Each morning will begin with the same ritual: dismantling my camp, loading the canoe, and resuming the river. Each evening, I will need to find a new place to stop and set up my bivouac, somewhere on a pebble beach, at the edge of a boreal forest, or on a wild bank.

As we travel the kilometers, we will cross magnificent landscapes: mountains, endless valleys, spruce forests, isolated villages, and territories where grizzlies, moose, wolves, eagles, and beavers still live.

But YUKONIA will not just be a journey through the Great North.

It will also be an inner adventure.

Setting out alone for nearly 100 days means accepting silence, solitude, doubts, and the unexpected. It is learning to rely on oneself, to take the time, and to rediscover the joy of simple things: paddling, observing, listening, meeting, contemplating.

At a time when everything is always moving faster, I have chosen to slow down.

To live at the rhythm of the river and the sun.

To accept not being in control of everything.

And to sometimes let the Yukon decide for me.

For nearly a hundred days, my canoe will carry me my whole life, the river will be my road and the next bend my horizon.

Through this adventure, I want to tell much more than a canoe descent.

I want to share the beauty of the Great North, the richness of encounters with those who live along the river, the wildlife, the nights under the stars, the difficult days, the moments of doubt, but also those rare instances when one simply feels at home, alone in the midst of an immensity that surpasses us.

I will document this adventure along the kilometers, through photography, video, and my stories.

Each day will have its story.

Each encounter will leave a mark.

Each paddle stroke will bring me a little closer to the Bering Sea.

All these images, these encounters, and these emotions will then give birth to a documentary film, a book, stories and et des lectures, so that YUKONIA continues to live long after my arrival in Alaska.

For reaching Emmonak will not really mark the end of the adventure.

It will simply be the moment when I can start to tell it.