Robert Edwin Peary ; Erich Dagobert von Drygalski ; Sven Anders Hedin ; Frederick Albert Cook ; Matthew Alexander Henson ; Jean-Baptiste-Étienne-Auguste Charcot ; Robert Falcon Scott ; Gertrude Bell ; Otto Nordenskjöld ; Roald Amundsen ; Luigi Amedeo Giuseppe Maria Ferdinando Francesco, Duke (duca) d'Abruzzi ; Howard Carter ; Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton ; Hiram Bingham ; William Beebe ; Vilhjalmur Stefansson ; Lincoln Ellsworth ; Sir Douglas Mawson ; Roy Chapman Andrews ; Auguste Piccard ; Jean-Felix Piccard ; Umberto Nobile -- H. Saint John Philby ; Albert William Stevens ; George Mallory ; T.E. Lawrence ; Richard E. Byrd ; Sir George Hubert Wilkins ; Bessie Coleman ; Freya Stark ; Osa Johbson ; Carl Ben Eielson ; Amelia Earhart ; Sir Francis Chichester ; Charles A. Lindbergh ; Leakey Family ; Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh ; Sir Vivian Ernest Fuchs ; Jacques-Yves Cousteau ; Tenzing Norgay ; Thor Heyerdahl ; Sir Edmund Hillary ; John H. Glenn, Jr. ; Jacques Piccard ; Walter M. Schirra,Jr.; Alan B. Shepard,Jr. ; Konstantin Petrovich Feoktistov ; Virgil I. Grissom ; Valdimir Mikhaylovich Komarov ; Gene Savoy -- Frand Borman ; James A. Lovell,Jr. ; Andriyan Grigotyevich Nikolayev ; Buzz Aldrin ; Charles Conrad,Jr. ; Ben L. Abruzzo ; Donn Eisele ; Neil Armstrong ; Thomas P. Stafford ; John W. Young ; Pavel Romanovich Popovich ; Edward Higgins White II ; John L. Swigert,Jr., Dian Fossey ; Josephh Kerwin ; Alan Bean ; Paul J. Weitz ; William A. Anders ; Fred W. Haise,Jr. ; Yury Alekseyevich Gagarin ; Jane Goodall ; Aleksey Arkhipovich Leonov ; Valery Bykovsky ; Maxie Anderson ; Sir Wally Herbert ; Roger B. Chaffee ; Sylvia Alice Earle ; Gherman Stepanovich Titov -- Sigmund Jähn ; Valentina Tereshkova ; Robert Laurel Crippen ; Valery Vladimirovich Polyakov ; Pyotr Hyick Klimuk ; Akiyama Toyohiro ; Charles Robert Burton ; Sir Ranulph Fiennes ; Stevwe Fossett ; Reinhold Messner ; Brian Jones ; Svetlana Yevgenyevna Savitskaya ; Christa Vorrigan McAuliffe ; Sir Richard branson ; Muhammed Faris ; Sally Ride ; James Cameron ; Ann Bancroft ; Salman al sa ud ; Mae Jemison ; Bertrand Piccard ; Apa Sherpa ; Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner
Summary:
Technological advances--including pressurized cabins for hot air balloons, rocketry that powers spacecraft, and deep-sea diving gear--have changed the face of exploration. What hasn't changed since ancient times, however, is the bravery and inquisitiveness of intrepid individuals at the forefront of modern-day exploration and adventure.
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