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Anthropologist who during the 1970's, lived in Papua New Guinea studying The Abelam people, their ceremonies and religious beliefs. She also worked for the Papua New Guinea government collecting artefacts for the country's museums
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Accomplished mountaineer who has led memorable expeditions scaling the peaks of the Yukon. Member of the Order of Canada
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14-year-old mountain climber who was born in Africa when her parents were missionaries
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mountaineer - first American woman to climb Mount Everest
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American mountaineer
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Explorer presenter writer
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Radio Operator with Richard Byrd, Byrd Antartic Expedition 2 Team
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Dutch Archeologist
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Discovered wrecks of PT-109 JFK John F. Kennedy's boat he was Skipper of, the Titanic & Bismarck; numerous underwater scientific feats
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1st woman to cross antarctica on foot
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Climbed mount Everest in same party as Edmund Hillary in 1953
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Maya Exploration Center Director, Fellow of the Explorers Club, contributor on Ancient Aliens
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First person to freefall across the English Channel and the first human to break the sound barrier outside of a vehicle
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Deep Freeze: an officer on the U.S.S. Arneb
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Shark and Deep Water Award-Winning Conservationist. Was married to late Author, Peter Benchley
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Adventure Enthusiast/Explorer, Host Of 'theHistory Channel's 'Digging For The Truth'
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Explorer
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Mountain climber
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Born In Singapore, English Female Socialite, International Adventurer And Activist, Who Came To Prominence After Climbing The Summit Of Mount Everest On 15 May 2004, Making Her The Fourth British Woman To Do So. Awarded OBE in 2006
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American shipwreck diver and government specialist, currently living in Ramstein, Germany
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Russian Climber, Author
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Physicist with Richard Byrd, Byrd Antartic Expedition 2 Team
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Author/Mountaineer/Film Maker/'Seven Years in Tibet', IMAX 'Everest' & others
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American Male Sled Dog Racer, Kennel Owner And Motivational Speaker - Yukon Quest Dog Sled Race Winner (1999). Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race Runner Up (2002 And 2003). Henry Haln 200 Winner (1996)
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Director of 1937 Love Life of a Gorilla. Also an explorer.
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Joe Brown (2)
English mountaineer who made many significant ascents in the Alps in the 1950's. In 1955, he was part of the team who made the first ascent of the third highest mountain in the world, Kangchenjunga in the in the Nepalese Himalaya -
National Geographic Fellow and NYT-bestselling author. Co-produced an Emmy Award-winning documentary & holds three Guinness records for endurance cycling. He is an explorer, speaker, business founder & was in a relationship w/ Cheryl Tiegs
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Mountain climber
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Four Time Winner of the Iditarod Dog Sled Race
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English Female Author And Long Distance Walker - Novel - 'Ffyona Campbell - On Foot Through Africa' (1994), 'Whole Story a Walk Around The World' (1996), 'Feet of Clay: Her Epic Walk Across Australia'(1991), 'The Beat Of A Different Drum'(2017)
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English Female Explorer, Adventurer, Author, And Motivational Speaker - Novel - 'Snow, Sleds \And Silence: The Story Of The Nordkapp Expedition' (2012), 'A Challenge Too Far?' (2003)
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Italian Mountaineer/Born:01/02/1909
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Explorer
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Explorer
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Explorer
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American wreck diver. Together with Richie Kohler, he was one of the co-hosts for the History Channel's Deep Sea Detectives,
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Polish Former Female Sailor And Naval Engineer. First Woman To Sail Solo Around The World. She Sailed From The Canary Islands On 28 March 1976, And Returned 21 April 1978, Completing A Circumnavigation Of 31,166 Nautical Miles (57,719 km) In 401 days
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Explorer
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Adventurer
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Last survivor of a group of four teenage boys who discovered the Cave of Lascaux in 1940
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First person to the summit of K2
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American Serial Killer
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French naval officer, oceanographer, filmmaker and author. Co-invented the Aqua-Lung. Hosted the tv show The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau. Created the Cousteau Society for the Protection of Ocean Life. Father of Jean-Michel Cousteau
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Australia's leading underwater photographer and one of the first to film the Whale Shark
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Mountain climber
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Adventurer - Australian presenter of 'Outback Adventures'
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French Egyptologist and scientist who published a theory stating that the stones of the Great Pyramid where not carved stone but mostly a form of limestone concrete
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Dennis Davis (3) British mountaineer, the first man to climb the Mount Nuptse in 1961
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One of three to reach & rescue Richard Byrd, Byrd Antartic Expedition 2 Team
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Great Biker Buildoff on Discovery Channel
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French rock climber and mountaineer. In 1992 she became the first woman to complete a solo ascent of the Eiger's north face
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Author
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Austrian mountaineer, member of the expeditions that first climbed the Broad Peak and Dhaulagiri
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Russian polar explorer
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German mountaineer and explorer. First german who climbed on top of all 14 8000er
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Chief Radio Engineer during 2nd Richard Byrd, Byrd Antartic Expedition 2 Team
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'Norman G. Dyhrenfurth (born May 7, 1918) is a Swiss-American mountaineer and film maker. He was the leader of the successful American Mount Everest Expedition of 1963, which placed six climbers on the summit.'
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Mexican-American electrical engineer, first woman of Mexican descent in space
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Rock-Climber
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French navigator
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One of the Sir Edmund Hillary party, on the 1953 Mt. Everest feat
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Explorer
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First solo balloonist to circumnavigate the earth..
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Monkey Woman of the World/Reseacher
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Mountaineer of the 1996 Mt. Everest tragedy
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German explorer & wolf scientist, lived amongst wolves for several years, opened a wolf park in germany
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British Explorer who, along with Edmund Hillary, completed the first overland crossing of Antarctica
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Author/Essayist. Daughter of Refugees. Immigrant. Scientist. Cook. Immigration-Journeys Explorer. Conversation-Maker. Extroverted-Introvert (also, socially-awkward). Roots in New Delhi and San Diego
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Mountain climber
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Nuno Gomes (2)South African SCUBA diver, holder of the Guinness World Record deep dive. He is also a renowned cave diver and holds the current world record for the deepest cave dive, done in Boesmansgat cave ,South Africa in 1996
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Member of the successful British team which made the first ascent of Mount Everest in 1953, he was in charge of stills photography. Now lives in Australia
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Presenter/Adventurer: Born Survivor, Man vs Wild. Chief Scout
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Born 22 July 1942, Austrian mountaineer
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Explorer, Yachtsman
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American adventurer and author
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explorer
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Pushed his wheelchair across Canada, Author & Motivation Speaker
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Mountaineer and one of the last surviving team members of the 1955 Kangchenjunga expedition. He now lives in New Zealand
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Austrian explorer and author of Seven Years in Tibet
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Underwater model, wife of pioneer diver Hans Hass
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Deep Freeze: he operated a quad-radar unit and built the control tower
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Former resistance fighter and noted explorer from Norway
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British born marine engineer and submarine designer.He also designed the one-man microsubmersible Mantis, which he himself piloted in the James Bond film 'For Your Eyes Only'. As late as 2007, he held the world solo dive record of 3,000 feet (910 m)
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Major Kenneth Hedges RAMC, Arctic explorer member of 1968/9 British Trans Arctic Expedition
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Explorer
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French mountaineer, was member of the French Annapurma expedition in 1950; later became a politician
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Former Norwegian explorer with Kon-Tiki
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Rock climber
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Mountaineer, Survivor Of The 1996 Mount Everest Tragedy
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Barbara Hillary (2) First Black Woman to make it to the North Pole. She did this after surviving lung cancer at age 67 & traveling to the North Pole at age 75.
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Mountain climber; among the first to scale Mt. Everest (with Tenzing Norgay, Sherpa guide)
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Peter Hillary (2)
Mountain climber, son of Edmund Hillary -
Blind International Adventurer
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American rock climber
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American mountaineer
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Belgian explorer
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First double amputee to reach the top of Mt Everest in 2006; had lost both legs to frostbite in 1982
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The Crocodile Hunter
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Widow of Steve Irwin, the Crocodile Hunter; Hosts Planet's Best on Animal Planet with daughter Bindi
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Discovery Channel Motorcycle Mania
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Adventurer
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WW2 vet, born 1921, and the last surviving member of Richard Byrd'sThird Antarctic Expedition in 1939. Also returned with Byrd on his 1946 and 1947 expeditions
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Balloonist
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Australian Aborigine whose story was told in The Rabbit Proof Fence
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Antarctic explorer
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Polish polar explorer, author
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Mountaineer
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Mountain climber
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Four Time Winner of the Iditarod Dog Sled Race
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(1875-1934) reigned as King of the Belgians from 1909 to 1934. King Albert was killed in a mountaineering accident in eastern Belgium in 1934, at the age of 58, and he was succeeded by his son Leopold
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Artic Explorer. Member of Walter Willaim Herbert 1969 artic team
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American technical wreck diver and shipwreck historian who has been diving and exploring shipwrecks since 1980. Together with John Chatterton, Kohler was a co-hosts of the television series Deep Sea Detectives on the History Channel
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Author. Into the Wild, Iceland, Eiger Dreams, and Under the Banner of Heaven, and Into Thin Air, his personal account of the 1996 Mt. Everest disaster
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Swedish adventurer, rode his bicykle from sweden to mt Everest and climed to the top and then rode his bike back to sweden
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Turkish Air Force Lieutenant, best known for his 1960 aerial photograph of an outline of a ship on the peak of Mount Ararat, which is thought to be the site of Noah's Ark
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Italian mountaineer, 1st Person to reach K2
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Mountaineer
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Australian explorer
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Vertebrate Zoologist with Richard Byrd, Byrd Antartic Expedition 2 Team
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Swedish aeronautical engineer
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Last surviving witness to 'The Sutton Hoo excavation' in 1939, considered to be one of the most important excavation's made in British archaeological history. She lives in Chester, UK and is now 84 years old
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Pioneering female pilot. A WASP during WWII
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British climber and last surviving member of the 1953 Everest Expedition. He now lives in Upper Holloway, near Matlock, Derbyshire
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Fastest solo racer around the world. (and came 2nd in the 2001 race) the first woman to sail solo around the world, comes from the Isle Of Wight - UK
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Mountain climber
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1 of 3 People who in 2006 went on expedition to the river Nile to find its Source (where it really starts) and found it and becouse of this the river Nile became the longest river in the world
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Biologist best known to the general public for his interest in the Loch Ness Monster and other cryptozoological entities
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Winner of the 1983 Iditarod Dog Sled Race
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UK submarine pilot, born 1945. Last1973 Pisces III survivor, the deepest successful submarine rescue in history
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Australian Outback explorer, had a show called Adventure Bound on the Travel Channel
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Australian Antarctic Explorer
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Explorer, First person to row single handed across the North Atlantic Ocean
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One of the pioneers of underwater swimming in Britain and author of many books on diving
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1 of 3 People who in 2006 went on expedition to the river Nile to find its Source (where it really starts) and found it and becouse of this the river Nile became the longest river in the world
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1 of 3 People who in 2006 went on expedition to the river Nile to find its Source (where it really starts) and found it and becouse of this the river Nile became the longest river in the world
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Novelist, travel writer, and adventurer
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antarctic explorer / author / lecturer
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Mountaineer
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Geographer. Going to Extremes Channel 4.
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Japanese alpinist born in 1932, became the first person to ski on Mount Everest on May 6, 1970 and reach the summit again in 2013 at the age of 80
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British mountaineer and writer. First female British certificated mountain guide. Author of Miss Pink series of novels
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American mountaineer, author and artist from Burley, Washington. He is best known as the author of The Challenge of Rainier, first published in 1971 and considered the definitive work on the climbing history of Mount Rainier
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Explorer, 2022 Allen & Ginter #227
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Canadian photographer and mountain climber who was the first person in the world to have climbed the highest peaks of all seven continents
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Simon Murray, CBE (born 25 March 1940) is a Hong Kong - based British businessman, adventurer, author, and former French Foreign Legionnaire. He was the oldest man to reach the South Pole unsupported, at the age of 63
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World traveller
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Youngest person to climb Mt Everest, at age 25 in 1999
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Dutch Arctic and Antarctic explorer. First Person to ski to all 3 poles in one year. First Dutch person to reach the South Pole
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Mountain climber
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Indian mountaineer, who in 1984 became the first Indian woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest
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Spanish (Basque) mountaineer. First woman to climb all fourteen eight-thousanders peaks
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found 1st civil war submarine 1 31 years after it sunk
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Geophysicist who discovered the Chicxulub crater
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Zoologist with Richard Byrd, Byrd Antartic Expedition 2 Team
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Swiss balloonist and psychiatrist
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mountaineer
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Mountain climber who holds numerous world records. Fastest to climb all 14 'eight-thousander' mountains in the world, Ascended Everest, Lhotse and Makalu in 48 hours, was the first to do a winter ascent of K2
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Nepalese Gurkha awarded the Victoria Cross in June 1944
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Harry Reid (3)
Retired rocket engineer, hired to work with Von Braun's team in 1958. Worked on the recently launched Explorer I satellite project, and then a career at NASA, with contributions to the Apollo and Skylab missions -
Adventurer, fist swede to climb Mt Everest
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Iditarod Champion 1985 // First Woman to Win
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WWII: Battles of Midway, Iwo Jima, Saipan, Tinian. NASA: Explorer I (first US satellite 1958), Alan Shepard (Mercury-Redstone 3), Chief Engineer/Deputy Director for Apollo Space Program, Skylab, director Launch Operations Apollo-Soyuz '75
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Mountain climber
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French bare-handed urban climber; AKA 'Spiderman'
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American boy who at age 13 became the youngest climber ever to reach the top of Mt Everest in 2010
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26th US President, statesman, writer, explorer, 1858-1919
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Explorer/Byrd: geographic, air reconnaissance and photogrammetric officer to Admiral Byrd on two antarctic expeditions and served as Byrd's scientific advisor
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British born TV presenter and Antarctic explorer. He is also an experienced and popular public speaker, science support and field logistics expert, polar guide, professional diver and instructor, mountaineer and yacht skipper
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Russian explorer; appeared in Titanic (1997)
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Explorer
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long distance rower explorer
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long distance rower explorer
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Youtuber and Adventurer
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Legally blind musher in the Iditarod Dog Race
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North Pole Explorer. Author
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British mountaineer and explorer
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Rowing
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English archaeologist best known for her studies of The Yeti aka The Abominable Snowman and The Almas, the wild man of Mongolia. Now lives in North Yorkshire, England
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Florida Skunk Ape Specialist
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Oldest man to climb Mt Everest at age 76; from Nepal
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The oldest of the four surviving Sherpas from the 1953 Everest Expedition. He is now 90+ and lives in Namche Bazaar, Solukhumbu District in the Sagarmatha Zone of north-eastern Nepal
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Mountain climber
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Last surviving Sherpa from the 1953 Everest Expedition. He is now 82 and lives in Namche Bazaar, Solukhumbu District in the Sagarmatha Zone of north-eastern Nepal. Also known as Fura Kancha Sherpa
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Mountain climber
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Record Breaking Mountaineer
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One of the four surviving Sherpas from the 1953 Everest Expedition. He now lives in Darjeeling, West Bengal, India
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One of the four surviving Sherpas from the 1953 Everest Expedition. He now lives in Darjeeling, West Bengal, India
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geologist astronomer
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Professional mountain guide since 1973 & has personally conducted over 100 major expeditions around the globe, including over 30 to Himalayas. Recognized internationally as one of the world's premiere mountaineering expedition leaders
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Joe Simpson (2) Touching the Void is based on his experiences
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Pioneer in underwater archaeology (Born: 1947) who studies shipwrecks and sunken treasure. He is also a published author. He was twelve years old when he found his first five shipwrecks. He discovered the SS Georgiana in 1965
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Reality star, Explorer, Naked and Marooned
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skydiver
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Polar explorer, author
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One of the pioneers of living under the sea. In 1962, he stayed for 26 hours at 200 feet, in 1964, for 49 hours at 432 feet
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First British Woman to Conquer Everest
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Youngest to climb world 7 summits at 17
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English mountaineer/army officer who took part in the 1953 American Karakoram Expedition. He is now living in retirement
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Explorer
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Robert Swan (3)Polar Explorer and Environmental campaigner
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iditerod racing
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First Women to climb MT Everest
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artic explorer skier
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Wife of Lowell Thomas. Lives in Alaska
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Author and explorer
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Melchior, Balthazar and Caspar, Biblical people, also bring gifts during the Holidays to children in Latin America and Spain (on January 6th every year), akin to Santa Claus in those areas
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Austrian mountaineer, actor an author 1892-1990
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Studys Vampires
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Last survivor of the SS Chelyuskin disaster. A Soviet steamship reinforced to navigate through polar ice that became ice-bound in Arctic waters during navigation along the Northern Maritime Route from Murmansk to Vladivostok. He is now 87
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Antarctic explorer, Byrd expedition 1927
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climber
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Adventurer. Guinness World Record's Hall of Fame
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Aviator/Writer
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Naturalist/Ethnographer
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Actor/River Biologist/Extreme Fisherman - River Monsters
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One of the Edmund Hillary group, 1953 Mt. Everest feat
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Explorer - longest raft voyage in history
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Photographer/Explorer
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Five-time Emmy winning cinematographer and underwater film producer who was the world's first cameraman to film the Great White shark
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17 year old sailed solo aroung the world
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Anthony Wayne (2) Member of the famed U.S. Antarctic Service Expedition, often referred to as Rear Admiral Richard Byrd's third Antarctic Expedition. He is now 98 and lives in Niskayuna, Schenectady County, New York, USA. Born: 1915
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Mountain climber, first blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest
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One of the last surviving member's of the 1953 Everest Expedition. He is now 87 and lives in Cumbria, UK with his wife, Sally. He and George Lowe are now the only two surviving members of the 1953 Everest Expedition
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Cowboy, guano miner, cave explorer, and park ranger for the National Park Service. He is best remembered as the discoverer, early promoter and explorer of what is known today as Carlsbad Caverns in Carlsbad Caverns National Park, New Mexico
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An American mountaineer. First American to reach the summit of Mount Everest (1963)
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Man who climbed the World Trade Center in 1977
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Kodak Engineer, born 1945. Part of the team that worked on the mid-60s Lunar Orbiter missions that mapped the moon prior to the Apollo landings
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One of Seven Farmers who discovered the Terra Cotta Army
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Touching the Void is based on his and his partners esperiences.
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Paranormal investigator
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iditarod
