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If you’ve ever wondered how you might become an explorer for National Geographic believe it or not it can be as simple as attending a seminar.
During the Banff Mountain Film Festival in a conference room at the Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada aspiring young explorers learn the ropes of… Read the rest
In a challenge reminiscent of the 19th-century American folk song John Henry, UK polar explorer Tim Williamson, 23, will attempt to run faster than what reports refer to as “one of North York Moors Railway’s most prestigious steam engines”in a one-day, 16-mile race through North York Moors National Park in… Read the rest
On April 22 (Earth Day), polar explorer Eric Larsen completed his journey to the North Pole, leaving him officially two thirds of the way finished with his historic Save the Poles expedition – an attempt to be the first human being to reach all three of the world’s poles in… Read the rest
A proposal by a Canadian archeological firm seeking to test underwater survey equipment in Larsen Sound–an arctic waterway off the coast of Northern Canada–might not be approved on the basis that the location is considered to be the most likely final resting place of two long-lost ships abandoned in the… Read the rest
After the fire storms of the apocalypse choke the life out of our planet the cockroaches will rule as kings from thrones made of Twinkies. Everybody knows that. And yeah, sure, it’s frustrating to know they are just waiting us out. But to add insult to injury it now appears… Read the rest
- Jennings: Stoic and poised
Epicocity team member and Wend friend Trip Jennings was recently announced the “Best Explorer Now” by Canoe and Kayak magazine. Epicocity’s Rivers In Demand project has taken Jennings and the crew to all edges of the globe performing first descents in the name of environmental conservation.
On January 2nd, 2010 polar explorer Eric Larsen reached the South Pole, completing the first leg of an epic three-part journey that will take him to the North and South Geographic Poles as well as to the summit of Mount Everest – all in one year.
After 47 days of… Read the rest
In 2008 seventy-six-year-old Nepalese man Min Bahadur Sherchan reached the peak of Mount Everest, making him the oldest person to ever climb the 29,028 foot mountain all the way to the top. But when the 2009 Guinness Book of World Records came out he saw that the title had been… Read the rest
British explorer Robert Falcon Scott left more than a legacy after his doomed 1910-12 expedition to the South Pole. He also left two blocks of butter.
The New Zealand butter was still intact when conservators for the Antarctic Heritage Trust discovered it in stables attached to Scott’s expedition Hut at… Read the rest
Most people don’t know that over the past three months the United States and Canada have been involved in a joint effort to map and collect scientific data about the continental shelf and oceanic basins in the Arctic. On October 1st researchers aboard the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy… Read the rest
