Explorers
Great Explorers: Francis Younghusband
Dubbed the last great imperial adventurer, Sir Francis Younghusband...
Great Explorers: Peter Aufschnaiter, the Other Austrian in ‘Seven Years in Tibet’
Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer's travel classic, Seven Years in...
1021 AD: The Precise Date The Vikings Lived in North America
We've long known that the Vikings lived in North...
How Victor Vescovo Found the Deepest Shipwreck in History
As the submersible glides through the icy black of...
Great Explorers: Alexandra David-Neel –Traveler, Opera Singer, Monk, Free Spirit
Alexandra David-Neel sought freedom from convention, and preferred sleeping...
Enjoy Snow? Here’s the Man Who Took the First Pictures of Snowflakes
Though not an explorer of geographies, Snowflake Bentley was...
Legends Series: Aloha Wanderwell
Ambitious trailblazer, innovator, and adventurer; Aloha Wanderwell was born...
Escape from Camp 354: Mount Kenya, 1943
The history of Africa's second-highest peak culminates in the...
Grape-Nuts Seeks Women Adventurers to Sponsor
March is Women's History Month, and Grape-Nuts is taking...
Divers to Explore Possible Crater of Siberia’s Famous Tunguska Meteor
A quartet of geophysicists and hydrobiologists has obtained a...
Great Explorers: Emmeline Freda Du Faur
Emmeline Freda Du Faur defied convention by pioneering women's...
100 Great Explorers of the Last 100 Years
BY MARTIN WALSH, ANGELA BENAVIDES, ASH ROUTEN, KRIS ANNAPURNA,...
Cho Oyu 1964 and the Strange Double Life of Fritz Stammberger
The almanacs of climbing history prefer not to include...
Changing Times: Three Prominent Female IFMGA Mountain Guides
Women make up less than 2% of all mountain...
50 Years Ago: The Worst Mountain Disaster in British History
Fifty years ago this week, the UK experienced the...
New Zealand Explorers: Laura Dekker
When minors do extraordinary things, controversy follows. That rule...
Great Explorers: Fredrik Hjalmar Johansen
While Fridtjof Nansen and Roald Amundsen sought fame and...
“Don’t Let a Polar Bear Eat My Remains”: Paul Bjorvig’s Adventures on Franz Josef Land
The Norwegian Paul Bjorvig (1857-1935) usually isn’t considered a...
New Polar Expedition Scholarship for People of Color
PolarExplorers is seeking applicants for its newly minted Matthew...