He descended seven miles beneath the surface of the Pacific Ocean.
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Known for the popular Dirk Pitt novels.
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Barbara Hillary (1931–2019), first African American woman to reach the North and South Poles
by Kirk FoxShe never skied until training for her trek to the North Pole.
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In 1953 Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first to climb to the summit of Mt Everest.
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Who was Gertrude Bell? She did as much to shape the Middle East over the past century as any man.
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More than 50 years ago, a young glaciologist named Paul T. Walker took a break from his work on Canada’s northernmost island and left a message for future explorers following …
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In a time when the age of adventurers seemed long past, Thor Heyerdahl became one anyway.
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On this day in 1906, explorer Robert Peary became the first European to visit the geographic North Pole. But few at the time knew it was his manservant Matthew Henson …