The Mer de Glace — once called “the most desolate place on Earth” — has inspired poets, painters, explorers, and one of the greatest literary works in history: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.
This cinematic narrative takes you back to the year 1816, when an eighteen-year-old Mary Shelley, accompanied by Percy Shelley and Claire Clairmont, confronted a frozen world unlike anything she had ever seen.
A place where silence felt alive…
Where ice rose like frozen waves…
Where danger and beauty existed side by side.
Generations tried to capture its majesty — Dickens, Ruskin, artists, photographers — but none could fully hold the terror and wonder of the Mer de Glace.
Two centuries later, the glacier has retreated, its once-mighty waves of ice fading into memory. But its influence on imagination, literature, and art still endures.
This video reveals how this haunting landscape shaped Mary Shelley’s vision and changed the world of storytelling forever.
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