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Romi GarduceOn June 6, 2008, 9:30 pm Philippine Standard Time, Romi Garduce reached the summit of Mount Denali, Alaska, making his fifth summit among the Seven Summits.
Rudolf KauschkaIn 1922, Kauschka and his friends climbed the Ještěd mountain summit twelve times starting at 7 pm one day and finishing at 5:45 pm the next day.
Hans KrausHis last climb was Easy Overhang, a route he had done the first ascent of in 1941.
Warren Harding (climber)jpg | In June 1968, Harding climbed a direct route up the 1,400 foot Lost Arrow face near Yosemite Falls with Pat Callis, straight up the steep sunlit portion of the cliff to the tip of the detached pinnacle.
Joseph B. MacInnisIn 1974, MacInnis was the first scientist to dive beneath the North Pole.
Peter Wilhelm LundThen in 1835, Lund traveling inland through the province of Minas Gerais, and in Lagoa, an area characterised by a peculiar Karst geology, discovered several caves full of fossilized bones from extinct Ice Age megafauna species.
Edward L. AtkinsonIn orders to George Simpson and Meares immediately before his departure south, Scott ordered that after their return from accompanying the polar journey the dogs make a second journey over the barrier'' to transport to One Ton Camp 5'' XS'' rations, or at all hazards 3,... and as much dog food as they can carry'', this to be done by 12 January 1912.
Donald BeattyIn 1931 Beatty re-launched his ambitions for an expedition to South America, adding the enticement of exploration of the interior of the continent to his plans.
Tashi TenzingTashi again reached the summit of Mount Everest for the second time in 2002.
John MacGregor (sportsman) In 1866, he published A Thousand Miles in the Rob Roy Canoe, which popularised the design and, more importantly, the concept :'' in walking you are bounded by every sea and river, and in a common sailing-boat you are bounded by every shallow and shore ; whereas,... a canoe -LSB- can -RSB- be paddled or sailed, or hauled, or carried over land or water''.
Omar SamraOmar returned in 2013 to attempt the mountain one more time and reached the summit at 5:05 pm Alaska time.
Jon KedrowskiIn January 2009, Kedrowski climbed the three highest volcanoes (all above 17,500') in a period of 5 days, a rare feat known as the Mexican Trilogy.
Anton Schr?tter von KristelliHe was a scientific consultant to the Novara Expedition (1857 -- 59), as well as to the Austro-Hungarian North Pole Expedition.
Romi GarduceOn May 19, 2006, Garduce reached the summit of Mount Everest from the south ridge after Leo Oracion and Erwin Emata.
Edgar Ravenswood WaiteHe was involved in several expeditions to sub-Anatarctic islands - including the 1907 Sub-Antarctic Islands Scientific Expedition, New Guinea, and the Australian interior.
Bonnie Soper She is a keen swimmer, taking part in the Mount Maunganui Sovereign Sand To Surf in March 2009 and in the North Shore King of the Bays swim in April 2009.
Bertram DicksonIn 1892 Dickson accompanied the geographer Sir Thomas Holdich to the Andes Mountains to define the border between Chile and Argentina.
Carl Anton LarsenIn December 1893 he became the first person to ski in Antarctica on the Larsen Ice Shelf which was subsequently named after him.
Robert L. M. UnderhillHe was back in the Grand Tetons for six weeks the summer of 1931, completing on July 15 a first ascent of the southeast ridge of the Grand Teton, a route which now bears his name.
David Hempleman-AdamsIn May 2011 he led the Iceland Everest Expedition on the North Side of Everest.
James P. DelgadoHe led the crew that restored'' Ben Franklin'' (PX-15), a 130-ton oceanographic research submersible originally built in Switzerland for famed undersea explorer and scientist Jacques Piccard and most famously used on a historic 30-day'' drift mission'' along the eastern seaboard of the United States in 1969.
Clarence TilleniusHe also met painter of birds Alan Brooks in Vernon, British Columbia and traveled with the editor of the Country Guide on a 2000 mile trip through the Rockies and British Columbia and back and forth across the plains of Saskatchewan and Alberta.
Kit DesLauriersHer quest began in May 2004, when she became the first American woman to climb and ski from the summit of the highest peak in America -- Mount McKinley, in Alaska.
Allen YoungHe successfully located the expeditioners early in August, to learn that their vessel Eira had been crushed by ice and sunk on 21 August 1883.
William Lewis HerndonAfter a journey of 4,366 miles, which took him through the wilderness from sea level to heights of 16,199 feet, Herndon reached the city of Pará, Brazil on 11 April 1852.
Steve McKinney (skier)In 1984, McKinney and Jim Bridwell undertook a successful ski descent of Denali.
Joseph O. FletcherOn May 3, 1952, pilot William P. Benedict and Fletcher as co-pilot flew that plane to the North Pole, becoming the first humans to land there and the first humans (together with scientist Albert P. Crary, who flew with them) to set foot on the exact geographical North Pole.
Kenichi HorieHorie first rose to prominence when he became the first person to sail solo across the Pacific Ocean in 1962.
John McDouall StuartStuart wrote : There is a high mount about two miles to the NNE which I hoped would be in the centre but on it tomorrow I will raise a cone of stones and plant the Flag there and will name it Mount Sturt after my excellent and esteemed commander of the expedition in 1844 and 45, Captain Sturt, as a mark of gratitude for the great kindness I received from him during that journey.
Amedeo ObiciWhen he sailed across the Atlantic Ocean from Le Havre, France in March 1889, his destination was written on a label tied through a buttonhole on his coat.
Leo HouldingHe joined the 2007 Altitude Everest Expedition, led by American climber and mountaineer, Conrad Anker, retracing the last steps of legendary British climber, George Mallory, on Everest.
George MalloryMallory's grandson, also named George Mallory, reached the summit of Everest in 1995 via the North Ridge with six other climbers as part of the American Everest Expedition of 1995.
Clements MarkhamThe Markham River in Papua New Guinea was named after him ; Carsten Borchgrevink discovered and named Markham Island in the Ross Sea during his 1900 expedition, a gesture that was not, however, acknowledged by Markham.
Sarah Outen After an eleven day failed attempt which she dubbed her' Warm Up Lap', Outen set out again from Fremantle, Western Australia, on 1 April 2009 in her 19 ft boat called Serendipity.
Donald AttigIn 2008, he traveled the entire Shannon Navigation and beyond to the Seaport of Foynes, County Limerick, using the same live aboard boat without an engine.
Didier Delsalle On May 14, 2005, at 07:08 NPT in the early morning (01:23 UTC), Delsalle set the unbeatable world record for highest altitude landing of a helicopter when his Eurocopter AS350 Squirrel touched down on the highest point of land on earth, the summit of Mount Everest.
Omar Samra In 2007, Omar joined Ben Stephens (England), Victoria James (Wales) and Greg Maud (South Africa) in putting together an expedition to climb Mount Everest from its South side.
Norman D. VaughanIn 1994, at the age of 88, Vaughan participated in an expedition to climb the 10,302 ft (3,150 m) Mount Vaughan.
George Mallory Guy Bullock | Bullock at left on rear row Mallory participated in the initial 1921 British Reconnaissance Expedition, organised and financed by the Mount Everest Committee, that explored routes up to the North Col of Mount Everest.
Peter Boardman Boardman was invited by Chris Bonington to join an expedition to K2 (8,611 m) in 1978.
George Scott RobertsonHe asked the Government of India for permission to attempt the journey, and by October 1889 was on his way, departing from Chitral in northwest Pakistan in the company of several Kafir headmen of the Kam tribe.
William LobbAmongst the plants sent back by Lobb were two species of Cantua which he found growing in Bolivia, Chile and the Peruvian Andes ; C. buxifolia (the'' Magic-flower'') which was the first to flower in May 1848 and the bushy C. bicolor, with its large golden-red trumpet flowers.
David Livingstone(Jeal, p. 149) Livingstone was one of the first Westerners to make a transcontinental journey across Africa, Luanda on the Atlantic to Quelimane on the Indian Ocean near the mouth of the Zambezi, in 1854 -- 56.
Henk de VeldeIn 2001 de Velde started again, with a steel monohull yacht called Campina, this time using a totally new route, instead of west to east or east to west he wanted to sail the world north to south by passing the NE passage north of Siberia.
Chris BurdenIn 2005, Burden released Ghost Ship, his crewless, self-navigating yacht which docked at Newcastle-upon-Tyne on 28 July after a 330-mile 5-day trip from Fair Isle, near Shetland.
Charles KettleHe climbed Mount Maungatua on the Taieri Plain in 1847 and from there saw the interior of Central Otago.
Edgar EvansThis group of five men, personally selected for the final expedition push, attained the Pole on 17 January 1912 ; but all of them, including Evans, perished as they attempted to return to their base camp.
Donald Taylor (aviator)Taylor flew Victoria'76 to both the true North Pole and the Magnetic North Pole in 1984.
Nelson RockefellerMichael disappeared in New Guinea in 1961, presumed drowned while trying to swim to shore after his dugout canoe capsized.
Donald AttigIn 2008, he was the first person to transit the entire River Erne Navigation in a live aboard boat without an engine.
Rune Gjeldnes Together with Torry Larsen, Rune Gjeldnes travelled across Greenland in 1996.
Tony DaukszaDauksza began the journey in 1966 at Point Barrow, Alaska.
Jim Wickwire In 1981, Wickwire was traversing a glacier on Mount McKinley (also known as Denali) with a 25 year-old Mount Rainier guide named Chris Kerrebrock in the lead.
John McDouall StuartOn 22 April 1860, according to Stuart's calculations, the party reached the centre of the continent.
George W. MelvilleJeannette became icebound in September and, after two years of effort to save her, was crushed by ice floes in the Laptev Sea and sank 12 June 1881 -- leaving the crew stranded on the ice floes in mid-ocean in three small boats and with scanty provisions.
Charles Francis CoghlanYears after his death, a story arose that Coghlan's metal casket had been recovered in 1907, not far from his Prince Edward Island proper, by a group of Canadian fishermen in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, after drifting some two thousand miles along the East Coast of North America.
Lars-Eric LindbladHe led the first tourist expedition to Antarctica in 1966 in a chartered Argentine navy ship, and for many years operated his own vessel, the MS'' Lindblad Explorer'', in the region.
Reinhold MessnerBecause of frostbite, especially on his feet (six toes were amputated), Reinhold Messner was not able to climb quite as well on rock after the 1970 expedition.
Freda Du Faur Du Faur's rigorous preparation for the coming onslaught enabled her to climb Mount Cook soon after her arrival in New Zealand.
Glen DawsonUCLA professor Walt Mosauer was the first president of the group, which later became the Ski Mountaineers Section of the Angeles Chapter of the Sierra Club...'' In February, 1935 Dawson, Mosauer and several others attempted a number of winter ascents in the Bridgeport and Mammoth areas of the Sierra Nevada, but were turned back by storms.
Robert McClure After he returned from the first Franklin search expedition, a new search expedition was launched in 1850, with Richard Collinson commanding the'' Enterprise'' and McClure, as his subordinate, given the command of'' Investigator''.
Antonin BesseWhen Besse traveled to Mukalla on a sailing ship, the journey was slow and uncomfortable, prompting him to establish in 1936 an airline company with a capital of five thousand pounds, dubbed Arabian Airways, the fleet consisted of two small planes, each with a capacity of four seats.
David Scott CowperIn 1980, Cowper completed the fastest solo circumnavigation of the globe via Cape Horn, Cape of Good Hope and Cape Leeuwin in Ocean Bound, a Sparkman & Stevens 41' sloop, beating Francis Chichester's 16m Gypsy Moth IV, record of 226 days by one day.
Andrew ReganIn 2005, he led the Ice Challenger Expedition, a world record attempt for the fastest overland crossing to the South Pole.
Jens StoltenbergIn December 2011, in order to mark 100 years since Roald Amundsen reached the south pole on skis, Stoltenberg journeyed to Antarctica and replicated Amundsens feat.
Mikhail VodopyanovThen, he commanded an expedition of four Tupolev TB-3 aircraft, being the first to land on the North Pole on May 21, 1937, carrying parts and crew for an Arctic station.
George MalloryIn 1999 the Mallory and Irvine Research Expedition, sponsored in part by the TV show Nova and the BBC, and organized and led by Eric Simonson, arrived at Everest to search for the lost pair.
Kenton CoolIn the autumn of 2010 Cool made the third ever ski descent of Manaslu in Nepal, the world's eighth highest mountain.
Maclyn McCartyMcCarty was the youngest and longest surviving member of the research team responsible for this feat (known as the Avery -- MacLeod -- McCarty experiment), which also included Oswald T. Avery and Colin MacLeod ; he died on January 2, 2005, from congestive heart failure.
Henry GannettIn 1899, he was invited with other elite scientists on the Harriman Alaska Expedition.
Richard Archbold Towards the conclusion of the expedition in 1939, with Archbold intending to return to the USA across the Pacific, he was contacted by Captain P. G. Taylor, representing Australia n interests which, with war impending, wanted to determine the practicality of an air route from Australia to Europe over the Indian Ocean and via Africa rather than Asia.
Walter Bonatti In 1950 he tried what would have been his first major achievement : the first ascent of the east face of the Grand Capucin, an unclimbed face of red granite in the group of Mont Blanc, together with the climber Camillo Barzaghi.
Nikolai PatrushevIn January 2007, Patrushev joined the expedition of polar explorer Arthur Chilingarov, that flew on two helicopters to Antarctica and visited South Pole and Amundsen-Scott station.
Frederick Schwatka In 1878 -- 80, at the behest of the American Geographical Society he led an expedition to the Canadian Arctic to look for written records thought to have been left on or near King William Island by members of Franklin's lost expedition.
Wilhelm J. BurgerHe took photographs in Japan around 1869, and accompagnied the Wilczek expedition which was needed to prepare the Payer-Weyprecht polar expedition.
Jon KrakauerKrakauer's most recognized climb was a guided ascent of Mount Everest that became known as the 1996 Mount Everest disaster.
George Irving BellBell went on several more Himalayan expeditions and made the first ascent of Masherbrum, the 22nd highest peak in the world, in 1960.
David BrowerOn May 18, 1934, along with Voge, he began a ten-week climbing trip through the High Sierra, to survey climbing routes and maintain mountaineering records for the club.
Bestor RobinsonFrom October 9 to 12, 1939 a Sierra Club climbing team including Robinson, David Brower, Raffi Bedayn, and John Dyer, completed the first ascent of Shiprock, the erosional remnant of the throat of a volcano with nearly vertical walls on the Navajo reservation in northwestern New Mexico.
Allen Young In 1874 Allen Young purchased the superseded British Royal Navy gunvessel Pandora in order to make a final search for the missing written records of the Franklin expedition, with additional funding from Lady Franklin.
Arnold Spencer-SmithThe circumstances of the expedition, after the depletion of the shore party following the loss of SY Aurora in May 1915, meant that Spencer-Smith was required for the main depot journey to the Beardmore Glacier during the 1915 -- 16 summer season, irrespective of his physical limitations.
Reinhard KarlHis books are the following : Karl died on May, 19 1982 in an ice avalanche at Camp II on Cho Oyu, during his attempt to climb his third eight-thousander.
Carl H. EigenmannIn 1892, famed scientist Albert C. L. G. Günther financed Eigenmann's first expedition, a trip throughout western North America where many new species were collected.
Omar SamraTorn between heading back to Tahrir Square or continuing up the mountain he was already three quarters of the way up, Samra decided to keep on climbing and on 1 February 2011 he raised the Egyptian flag on the highest mountain in the world outside of the Himalayas with the words' Masr Lel Sha3b' written on the flag (translation : Egypt is for its people).
Peter Harding (climber)He continued to climb into his seventies, and in 1994 surprised many younger climbers by making a solo ascent of the difficult Younggrat route on the Breithorn.
Ragnar Th. SigurdssonIn addition to his native Iceland, he has photographed the Faroe Islands, Greenland, Northern Canada and even the North Pole which he reached in 1995.
Paul Walker (Arctic explorer)Since 1989 he has organized over 170 expeditions and personally led over 30 expeditions to Arctic Greenland, Baffin Island and Svalbard and has made over 100 first ascents of new peaks in Greenland.
Tagak CurleyIn 2008, he appeared in the documentary Passage, challenging 19th century claims by Lady Franklin, widely believed at the time, that the Inuit were responsible for signs of cannibalism among her husband's doomed expedition through the Northwest Passage.
Michael Forsyth, Baron Forsyth of DrumleanIn 2010 he climbed the highest mountain in Antarctica, Mount Vinson, in support of CINI and Marie Curie Cancer Care, having previously climbed Mount Aconcagua and Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest mountains in the Americas and Africa respectively.
Aron RalstonWhile Ralston says he intends to climb Mount Everest, he did not go along with polar explorer Eric Larsen on his'' Save the Poles'' expedition in 2010, as was previously reported.
Dave MacLeodIn April 2006, he established the climb Rhapsody on Dumbarton Rock which, at a grade of E11 7a, was possibly the hardest traditional climbing route in the world at the time, and looks set to be confirmed as the most difficult in Scotland.
George MalloryTwo items of circumstantial evidence from the body suggest that he may have attempted, or reached, the summit : From the location of their final camp (discovered in 2001), a summit climb may be estimated to have taken them around eleven hours.
Luis PiedrabuenaIn 1848, with his own schooner, Piedrabuena touched at the Falkland Islands to load groceries and then continued to Cape Horn, reaching the Antarctic continent whaling grounds, and then returned to his hometown Carmen de Patagones.
Tim Macartney-SnapeOn 3 October 1984 Macartney-Snape and Greg Mortimer were the first Australian s to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
Edmund HillaryAs part of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition he reached the South Pole overland in 1958.
James WickershamWickersham made the first climbing attempt on Mount McKinley in 1903.
Khoo Swee Chiow Khoo climbed Mount Everest in 1998 as a member of Singapore's first Mount Everest expedition.
Roland WestThe Joyita would gain further infamy in 1955 when her entire complement of 25 passengers and crew went missing in the South Pacific.
Reinhold Messner In 1972, Messner succeeded in climbing Manaslu on what was then the totally unknown south face of the mountain, of which there were not even any pictures.
Harold RaeburnIn 1914 four mountains were climbed, with Raeburn descending to find that World War I had broken out.