• The Monique hen who made the navigator Guirec Soudée famous has died, the adventurer announced Wednesday night.
  • The animal had participated in the crazy adventures of the Breton in particular by being prisoner of the ice of Greenland for thirty days.
  • The Momo hen had laid eggs and brought comfort to her friend and navigator on each of the trips.

"My little Momo is gone." It is with these words that the Breton navigator Guirec Soudée announced the death of his faithful hen Monique. Originally from Plougrescant (Côtes-d'Armor), the adventurer had become known for having embarked a red hen in his crazy project to be trapped in the ice of the North Pole for one hundred and thirty days in 2014. Aboard her sailboat Yvinec, the hen Monique had laid eggs and allowed the young navigator not to sink. "Without you I would have gone crazy during our 130 days of self-sufficiency in Greenland, including a good part of the polar night. I, who couldn't even fish through the pack ice, continued to lay eggs every day, knowing that our lives depended on it," the sailor recalled in a tribute message published Wednesday night.

Barely 20 years old, Guirec Soudée had the dream of taking a dog aboard his steel sailboat. During a stopover in the Canary Islands, friends had finally offered him a chicken, which had crossed the Atlantic at his side. The legend of Monique was born and the love story would last nine years. "Thanks to you it was also much easier to sympathize with people at each stopover. It must be said that in Saqqaq (village in Greenland), no one had ever seen a live chicken! ».


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For five years, the animal accompanied Guirec on his adventures on the seas and on the ice, making him a real star of social networks. At the end of his incredible adventures followed by hundreds of thousands of people, the Breton had published several books and a film where he told his adventures. "I sacrificed it for you too, I went to prison in Canada for your beautiful eyes and I gave up Tahiti because nobody wanted you there because of the bird flu," recalls the adventurer.

"I'll never forget you"

Recently, he rowed across the Atlantic in both directions and then participated in his first Route du Rhum. But without his hen Monique, who had remained on the small island of Côtes-d'Armor where Guirec lands when he is on land. The sailor should be at the start of the next Vendée Globe in 2024. "I will never forget you my little Momo. Thank you for everything."

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