Eric Valli

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Eric Valli


Born
in Dijon, France
December 21, 1952

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Éric Valli is a French photographer and film director.

Valli specializes in mountain scenery and is an expert on the Himalaya Mountains. In 1999 he directed the adventure film Caravan about survival in the Himalayas starring Thinle Lhondup, which became the first Nepalese film to be nominated for a Best Foreign Film Award at the Oscars.

Valli has also shot a documentary with Diane Summers on the honey hunters of Nepal documenting honey hunting by the Gurung tribesmen of west-central Nepal. In it, they enter the jungle in search of wild honey where they use indigenous tools under precarious conditions to collect honey.

Valli has received three World Press Awards for his work Chasseurs de Miel (1988), Chasseurs des Ténèbres (1991) and Les en
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Average rating: 4.4 · 73 ratings · 5 reviews · 22 distinct works
Himalaya

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4.56 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2000 — 7 editions
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Rencontres hors du temps

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Caravans of the Himalaya

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Honey Hunters of Nepal

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4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1988 — 6 editions
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Dolpo: Hidden Land of the H...

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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1987 — 3 editions
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Hunting for Honey

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Derrière l'objectif

it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions
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Shadow Hunters: The Nest Ga...

4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1990 — 7 editions
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Le ciel sera mon toit: Réci...

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Himalaya: The Making of the...

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“Fear is a sign to prepare yourself, not to stop.”
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