Explorers
Legendary Mountaineer Bradford Washburn’s Lost Cache Unearthed
A crew discovered lost film and cameras abandoned by...
2022 Banff Mountain Book Award Winners Announced
The Banff Mountain Book Competition just released its 2022...
Oldest Man to Paddle the Mississippi: Q&A With Dale ‘Greybeard’ Sanders
The veteran paddler they call 'Greybeard' shows no signs...
Tenacious Sunny Huang Completes 1,124-Peak ‘Full House’
You wouldn’t be wrong to call what Sunny Huang...
At 82, Jane Dotchin Saddles Up for Her 50th 1,000KM Ride Across England
Seasoned horsewoman Jane Dotchin and her faithful steed Diamond...
Great Explorers: Oscar Eckenstein
Born in 1859, English engineer and mountaineer Oscar Eckenstein...
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...