Season 22 · Episode 1

Superquark: Episode 1

The first episode of SuperQuark opens with a beautiful documentary: the Alps seen from above, as only eagles can see them thanks to a high definition camera mounted on a helicopter, we will have the impression of flying over the peaks, touching the peaks and observing from a completely new perspective vertiginous walls, glaciers, crystalline lakes, but also castles, trenches from the First World War and daredevil skiers who descend almost vertically the mountains between snow and rocks. We see up close the great protagonists of the Alpine chains, such as Mont Blanc and the Matterhorn, but also ibex and climbers. A nature that no one could get close to and that today reveals all its imposing beauty but also, as we will see, its problems. In recent weeks, the 100 years of the Great War have been remembered. A war fought in the trenches, in the mud and in blood. All wars are atrocious, but that of '15-'18 had an additional enemy: bacteria.