M1 — Pireneusok
20260920 160500 UTC
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[00:03:19] Hello, my name is Marina Kabanis Konsul, and I'll be with you
[00:03:23] in the next part of the Pyrenees as well. There are only two
[00:03:26] geographical locations where the Pyrenees end in the sea.
[00:05:00] most interesting, most important point, already
[00:05:03] as a child he ran around here, later
[00:05:06] he walked around here with his friends, then
[00:05:09] his girlfriend.
[00:05:12] who later became his wife, and finally my
[00:05:16] mother. She said he lived here
[00:05:20] for a long time before he had the idea
[00:05:24] to bring his sculptures here.
[00:05:28] It couldn't have been easy to set them up here, each of them could weigh around 10
[00:05:31] tons.
[00:05:34] Rather 13, than
[00:05:36] 10. During his life, he rarely
[00:05:40] shied away from problems, in fact. "Difficult
[00:05:43] tasks rather
[00:05:44] motivated him.
[00:05:48] How did it happen that his father, the goalkeeper of the local football club
[00:05:52] Real Sociedad, eventually became a famous
[00:05:55] sculptor?
[00:05:58] Nothing special happened to him, he always
[00:06:00] said,
[00:06:03] when he was still playing, his was the only
[00:06:06] three-dimensional post in the goal, and that
[00:06:10] couldn't have been a coincidence.
[00:06:43] We are at the entrance of the Chillida Museum, it has been closed for a year,
[00:06:47] but we are now exceptionally granted entry,
[00:07:12] even if not for long.
[00:07:17] Good day, hello, I'm
[00:07:19] Marina.
[00:07:26] Was the museum closed due to an economic crisis, or rather because of a lack of support for
[00:07:29] cultural institutions?
[00:07:42] The number of visitors also decreased,
[00:07:46] this is not an easy time for anyone
[00:07:48] either,
[00:07:55] for us, this museum itself is a complete
[00:07:58] work of art, of course it includes
[00:08:01] my father's works, but more
[00:08:03] importantly,
[00:08:06] here we can keep his entire oeuvre together even
[00:08:09] without the help of state institutions.
[00:08:32] The title of this sculpture is "Searching for Light", why?
[00:08:36] Because if we look inside, it guides our
[00:08:39] gaze to where the sculptor envisioned it beforehand.
[00:09:25] What will we find here at the Chillida Antoki
[00:09:26] workshop?
[00:09:29] Antoki is the workshop where my father
[00:09:32] made his largest
[00:09:36] works.
[00:09:42] "They could only be made in such a large workshop.
[00:09:45] Exactly, over
[00:09:48] time the sculptures grew larger
[00:09:52] and larger.
[00:09:54] So this work demanded maximum
[00:09:58] effort
[00:09:59] from everyone.
[00:10:03] Well, it would have been impossible in a smaller
[00:10:07] workshop. But then he found this
[00:10:10] place in Lasarte-Oria. where they could finally
[00:10:13] be created.
[00:10:16] How did he explain to the workers exactly what he wanted? First, he
[00:10:20] made a scaled-down model, from which the foreman could take
[00:10:24] measurements. After this, they could calculate how much material they would
[00:10:27] need and what machines they would have to use. These were
[00:10:31] followed by the individual
[00:10:32] work phases.
[00:10:41] Here is another wind comb. He dedicated this to my
[00:10:45] mother. This was made after the other sculpture
[00:10:49] erected in San Sebastián. My mother commented on this.
[00:10:52] Now at least she has her own comb, which she can't really
[00:10:56] lose, in the end this sculpture became one of the most
[00:10:59] complicated combs, I think my
[00:11:02] father was inspired by the place where they spent
[00:11:05] so much time together, even in their youth,
[00:11:09] on the beach, the wind could comb very strange shapes
[00:11:11] into my mother's hair, so this represents my mother's
[00:11:15] dishevelled hair? Yes, that gave
[00:11:18] my father the idea, and what else he loved about this sculpture was its
[00:11:21] sound.
[00:11:25] It sounds like bells, or like a giant
[00:11:29] tuning fork, only it's multi-voiced,
[00:11:33] and its sound is quite
[00:11:36] calming.
[00:11:55] "We are back on the beach, at the water-soaked feet of the Pyrenees,
[00:11:59] we won't stray too far from the other states of water,
[00:12:02] snow and ice. I suggest
[00:12:05] we visit a winter resort now and see how
[00:12:08] they prepare for the season. Of course, first of all, we need
[00:12:11] snow, and if it's not falling from the sky, they
[00:12:15] make it themselves. Besides that, you also need a super slope, which is also
[00:12:18] made by people. Let's take a closer look at all this
[00:12:21] in Font-Romeu.
[00:12:34] snowpark, freestyle, rider, biker, kicker, new school, dummer,
[00:12:37] shaper.
[00:12:40] These 100 English terms are quite peculiar.
[00:12:44] Especially around here, in the Eastern Pyrenees,
[00:12:47] in Font-Romeu. Head to the
[00:12:49] snowpark.
[00:13:04] The jumping dances can be made of earth and snow, but also of metal. Mark
[00:13:08] the shaper is having a meeting with Kristoff the dummer. The
[00:13:12] dummer and the shaper are professionals without whom a
[00:13:15] winter resort can hardly
[00:13:16] exist nowadays.
[00:13:20] Here comes a looping, starting from the highest point, then
[00:13:23] 17 meters later.
[00:13:25] "So from the takeoff to the
[00:13:27] landing,
[00:13:31] so it takes off here, but not high, rather it flies far, and
[00:13:35] then lands on a slanted surface,
[00:13:38] of course only after a lot of practice, a lot of practice is needed, and when
[00:13:42] it really lands on its feet, you have to start
[00:13:45] gradually, that's right, exactly
[00:13:48] so, gradually, at a slow
[00:13:52] pace,
[00:13:55] "you have to practice quite a lot, yes, if
[00:13:58] I draw it,
[00:14:02] the jump looks like this, yes, this is
[00:14:04] its profile,
[00:14:06] I'll prepare the base, and you set up the
[00:14:09] marker buoys,
[00:14:13] okay, take the drawings,
[00:14:15] okay,
[00:14:19] yes, alright, it'll be done, okay, thanks,
[00:14:22] Mark, good job,
[00:14:49] A shaper is an English term
[00:14:52] originally.
[00:15:28] The final design is carried out according to the function and difficulty
[00:15:32] of the track.
[00:15:33] The angle
[00:15:37] is always determined by the shaper, we are only executors,
[00:15:41] our shapers are well-known and famous throughout
[00:15:45] the Pyrenees.
[00:15:47] In Font-Romeu and the surrounding stations, five
[00:15:51] shapers and three dumpers work.
[00:15:54] The latter operate the huge machines. Every day from 9:30 AM
[00:15:58] we work here, preparing the slopes. Our job is
[00:16:02] also to ensure the safety
[00:16:05] of the Snowpark and the skiers here. In the evening, we then restore
[00:16:08] the slope so that everything is in order
[00:16:11] the next day.
[00:16:14] We are not building a new slope today. How does one become
[00:16:17] a shaper? By starting to work for a snow company, and slowly learning
[00:16:21] all the tricks involved, until they get the necessary
[00:16:25] official permits, for example here
[00:16:27] in Font-Romeu. That's how we slowly became professional
[00:16:30] shapers.
[00:16:32] The shapers and dumpers are very busy today because an important
[00:16:36] competition is being held on Saturday.
[00:17:37] we call, and the second is the reception part,
[00:17:41] where the rider, that is, the competitor, lands on the ground with their
[00:17:44] skis
[00:17:45] or snowboard,
[00:17:50] in this specific case it is a 20 meter
[00:17:53] kicker, it is important that the jump is executed
[00:17:57] precisely, and the landing, the touchdown, is also
[00:18:00] perfect, that's why we call it
[00:18:02] big air, because here it's quite a big jump,
[00:18:06] when it's much more than this.
[00:19:53] The snow cannon is actually a sprinkler system, so
[00:19:57] we are actually spraying water, only mixed with
[00:20:01] compressed air, and that too, when the air temperature is
[00:20:05] below freezing. That's completely.
[00:20:50] "Well let's see, it's already
[00:20:53] going, okay, bye,
[00:20:56] bye, all the
[00:20:58] best,
[00:21:02] working in minus 20 degrees is not always a pleasure, but I think
[00:21:06] driving this machine is still the best job here on the
[00:21:09] slope,
[00:21:17] this sport is not among the most dangerous ones.
[00:21:20] Provided that whoever skis here is aware of what
[00:21:24] they need to do, everyone needs to assess what
[00:21:27] they are committing to when they might fly up to a height of 15
[00:21:31] meters before landing again.
[00:21:34] The thing only becomes truly dangerous if someone
[00:21:38] is not aware of what they need to pay attention to in a
[00:21:42] snowpark like this.
[00:21:49] Yes...
[00:22:23] And the people who use the slope can finally
[00:22:26] be
[00:22:27] satisfied.
[00:22:31] Well, that's when we
[00:22:33] are also most satisfied.
[00:22:39] After four days, the slope in
[00:22:42] Font-Romeu is ready.
[00:23:16] Our last rendezvous today brings us together with
[00:23:19] Occitan John, who I think is once again
[00:23:22] biting off more than he can chew,
[00:23:25] and as for me, I think I'll stay here and
[00:23:28] taste the
[00:23:30] pintxos.
[00:23:33] I hope it will be delicious.
[00:23:52] "Hello, are you ready for adventures,
[00:24:07] come on piggy, come on, the Varus valley is the love nest of the kings of the
[00:24:09] forest,
[00:24:11] and it's deer rutting season right now, we're going
[00:24:15] to talk to Luc, who is the president of the local
[00:24:18] hunting association. Hi!
[00:24:22] Please explain what
[00:24:24] deer rutting is exactly?
[00:24:26] Deer rutting is a love ritual for
[00:24:28] red deer stags. This period usually starts around
[00:24:32] mid-September and lasts for about a month, until mid-October,
[00:24:36] of course, it also depends on the weather, how long it lasts
[00:24:39] each year?
[00:24:47] The red deer stags walk around up here in the mountains,
[00:24:51] and sometimes they
[00:24:52] fight each other.
[00:24:59] When such a combat competition ends, both parties leave and look for
[00:25:03] new
[00:25:04] opponents.
[00:25:09] Here we see the signs that a male has sharpened
[00:25:12] its antlers here.
[00:25:14] This often happens to them, especially before the mating
[00:25:17] season.
[00:25:22] It is usually most characteristic then,
[00:25:26] tell me Luc, when and how can one observe deer rutting up close?
[00:26:45] "Before I say goodbye, let me give you one last survival
[00:26:48] tip, when you are in nature, in the wild,
[00:26:51] you might encounter a lovesick
[00:26:53] red deer stag,
[00:27:01] what does he do?".