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Nov 20, 2023
Don Walsh (1931–2023), record-setting deep sea explorer
Don Walsh was an oceanographer and explorer who explored the ocean floor and was the first human to visit the Mariana Trench, seven miles below the surface of the ocean.
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Feb 26, 2020
Clive Cussler (1931–2020), best-selling adventure author
Clive Cussler was a best-selling adventure author known for his series of thrillers starring Dirk Pitt, an underwater explorer and playboy who battles evil villains. One of Cussler's novels, “Sahara,” was turned into a movie starring Matthew McConaughey and Penelope Cruz. More than 100 million copies of his books have sold over the past 50 years, including both fiction and nonfiction. Cussler also became an underwater explorer in real life, leading expeditions that discovered many shipwrecks including the Confederate’s Civil War ship Manassas, that sunk in the Mississippi River in 1862.
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Nov 26, 2019
Barbara Hillary (1931–2019), first African American woman to reach the North and South Poles
She never skied until training for her trek to the North Pole.
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May 29, 2015
Remembering Sir Edmund Hillary
In 1953 Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first to climb to the summit of Mt Everest.
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Apr 18, 2012
Thor Heyerdahl, Adventurer
In a time when the age of adventurers seemed long past, Thor Heyerdahl became one anyway.
