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Amyr Klink (born September 25, 1955 in São Paulo, Brazil) is an explorer and sailor. One of his projects, “Antarctica 360”, was circumnavigating the Antarctic continent on his own, in 79 days in 1998.
Yuichiro Miura (三浦 雄一郎, Miura Yūichirō, born October 12, 1932) is a Japanese alpinist who in 2003, at age 70, became the oldest person to reach the summit of Mount Everest. This record was later broken. However, on May 26, 2008, Miura onc
Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton CVO OBE FRGS (/ˈʃækəltən/; 15 February 1874 – 5 January 1922) was a polar explorer who led three British expeditions to the Antarctic, and one of the principal figures of the period known as the Heroic Age of An
Benoît Chamoux (February 19, 1961 – October 6, 1995) was a French Alpinist, who climbed 13 of the Eight-thousanders in the Himalayas.
Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar (1465, Cuéllar, Spain – ca. June 12, 1524, Santiago de Cuba) was a Spanish conquistador. He conquered and governed Cuba on behalf of Spain.
Ann Bancroft (born September 29, 1955) is an American author, teacher, and adventurer. She was the first woman to successfully finish a number of arduous expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctic. She was inducted as honorary member of the National Wom
Mirko Seljan (April 5, 1871 – c. 1913) and Stjepan Seljan (August 19, 1875 – June 7, 1936) were Croatian explorers.
Maryse Hilsz was a French aviator known for endurance flights and who went on to serve the French Resistance.
Major Alexander Gordon Laing (27 December 1793 – 26 September 1826) was a Scottish explorer and the first European to reach Timbuktu via the north/south route.
Jean-Michel Cousteau (born 6 May 1938) is a French oceanographic explorer, environmentalist, educator, and film producer. The first son of ocean explorer Jacques Cousteau, he is the father of Fabien Cousteau and Céline Cousteau.
Kenji Tsukagoshi (塚越賢爾) (1900–1943) was a Japanese aviator, and explorer.