This week we are reviewing famous explorers. Many of them were famous for being first at exploring part of the world, discovering a new plant or animal, or discovering a new technology. Many of these explorers belonged to the Explorers Club out of New York. Check out their website. For this post, make your vote for the most influential explore in the last 100 years. Provide a short explanation for your vote. Post a link to a website, podcast and/or video that describes their adventure.
Resources: Explorers' Club - http://www.explorers.org/
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The explorers club is pretty cool and stuff. Hillary (first up Everest) is a member. Hes a badass. However the explores club should kick more ass and take more names...
The explorers club is a sweet site about famouse expeditions around the world. Jacques Piccard is my favorite explorer because he travelled into the Marianas Trench, which is the deepest part of the ocean. That is amazing that someone could actually explore and area with conditions so extreme as this. He should kick more ass and take more names as mitch would put it.
Reinhold Messner is my favorite because he climbed everest with no oxygen, which is pretty BA in my book, he did it all native american style.
hes also in the book im reading, which gives him double points.
i have to agree with my associate mitch though, the explorers club should show more force in the world and take out the wilderness as they go and show that they rocked it.
also my guy is really fat.
he looked like a walrus which is kind of cheap bc it probably helped protect him from the really cold weather at the peak
my favorite member is Hillary who was the first the summit mt. everes. what a huge accomplishment. This man is insane. To have so much modivation to keep going and risk it all for a view is so awsome and respectable. I bet the view was worth it. there is somthing excellent about being with nature and experiecing the beauty but also the trouble of it.
I believe that Sir. Edmond Hilary is the most influential explorer of the past 200 years because he truly inspired many others through his accomplishment.
My favorite explorer was Hillary. He was the first man up everest. This is intense. There is alot about him in my book "Into Thin Air." This was a huge turning point in human existense.
Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins were my favorite explorers. The opened up the 'final frontier' of space to people. If it weren't for them, we wouldn't be near as close as we are now to real space travel.
The club is pretty cool. The most important expredition was the one with Shackleton and his brave and heartless crew. His navigator made the trip possible when they went through the coldest, windest and worst ocean, the artic. He navigated through the high swells and without much light to scope and measure the sun for mileage. He only had a 10-50 mile mark miss and they found South Georgia from Elephant island.
This club has many great stories about famous explorations. I must say that my favorite explorer is definitly Sir. Edmond Hilary for being the first man to summit Mt. Everest. He has to be a crazy dude to climb Everest. He keeps me inspired to be all that I can be.
The Explorers Club is a cool website. My favorite guy was Sir Edmund Hillary. He was the first guy to reach the summit of Mt. Everest and was knighted for it. He also jet boated the Ganges River in India.
I think Roald Amunsden is my favorite of the famous firsts. I think it is pretty awesome that he was able to survive with four men in the south pole. Surviving in the coldest part of the world is a pretty tough feat. What makes this even harder was that it was completely uncharted before he got there. I think this makes this a pretty awesome discovery.
the story of the apollo mission really attracted my attention since space expedition has always been my favorite topic of exploration. neil armstrong and his companion were the first people to land sucesfully on the moon. never having experiance with moon landings, Neil was forced to manually land Appollo 11. on the moon they took moon dirt samples and shot a laser from the moon to the earth to determin the distance over 200,000 miles. the astronoughts return trip brought them to a sucessful landing in the ocean, and returning as american heros.
Neil Armstrong's exploration of the moon was the most influential. It marked the culmination of years of research and the combined efforts of many people working toward the same cause. The other explorations didn't really provide and scientific information because they were based on self glory. This journey to the moon is important because the rest of exploration in the future will take place in space.
I liked the article about Armstrong and Aldrin walking on the moon on July 20, 1969, with kennedys mission to land on the surface of the moon. I like how armstrong manually took the space ship down and a fmous quote was then formed.
"One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."
Famous Firsts—Surface of the Moon
Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins
I think the best of these explores was Neil Armstrong,Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins.Collins did not land on the moon.The two other men explored the lunar landscape on foot for two hours and thirty-one minutes. They collected soil samples. They deployed a seismometer to measure tremors and deployed a reflector allowing a laser beam shot from Earth to bounce back, the beam's roundtrip travel time yielding a precise measurement of the Moon's distance from our planet.These explores change the world forever and enhanced our knowledge of outspace and satellites.
http://www.explorers.org/about/firsts/firsts_peary-henson.php
Robert Peary and Matthew Henson were the supposed first to go to the North Pole. However there is another person (Cook) who claims to have made an expedition to the North Pole a year before they did. i think they should be voted in because they trekked across the north Pole and on to the Big Lead. The whole trips was a series of relays. I actually think both Pearry & Henson,should be voted in to the hall of fame because Pearry and Henson were in the vicinity of the area but not quite on the exact place where the geographic north pole is.
To be the first person to ever climb up mount everest would be the most incredible feat ever. Hillary was one badass. He did it when there were no ropes or anything to help you up. Now that is skill.
Neil Armstrong and the rest of his team have to be the most influential explorers of the past 100 years. to be the first person to step on the moon, you would have to be very courages. I hope i get to do something as exciting as Neil and Buzz.
On January 23, 1960 Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh were the first people to reach Marianas Trench, Greatest Ocean Depth.They had a submarine, a 150-ton steel bathyscaph called Trieste. it took them 4 hours to descend 35, 800 feet. The expedition was sponsored by the US Navy. They found that sea life can exist at these amazing depths and that human life can still live at that depth too.
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