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Reinhold Messner

Reinhold Messner is an Italian mountaineer, explorer, and author known for high-altitude climbing undertaken with minima...

Italian Mountaineering 20TH Century Himalaya

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Edmund Hillary

Sir Edmund Hillary was a New Zealand mountaineer and explorer who, with the Sherpa climber Tenzing Norgay, reached the s...

Mountaineering 20TH Century Himalaya New Zealander

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Tenzing Norgay

Tenzing Norgay was a Nepali-Indian Sherpa mountaineer who, alongside Edmund Hillary, made the first confirmed ascent of...

Mountaineering 20TH Century Himalaya Nepali

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Ernest Shackleton

Ernest Shackleton was an Anglo-Irish explorer whose 1914–16 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition became famous for his le...

20TH Century Endurance British Polar

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Jerzy Kukuczka

Jerzy Kukuczka was a Polish mountaineer who in 1987 became the second person to climb all fourteen mountains higher than...

Polish Mountaineering 20TH Century Himalaya

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Don Walsh

Don Walsh was an American naval officer, oceanographer, and specialist in deep-sea exploration. On 23 January 1960, he a...

American 20TH Century Underwater Mariana Trench

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Ueli Steck

Ueli Steck was a Swiss alpinist and speed climber known for rapid ascents of technically demanding routes in the Alps an...

Swiss Contemporary Mountaineering Himalaya Alps

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Victor Vescovo

Victor Vescovo is an American private-equity investor, retired naval officer, and undersea explorer. He led the Five Dee...

American Contemporary Underwater Five Deeps

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Sylvia Earle

Sylvia Earle is an American marine biologist, oceanographer, explorer, and advocate for marine conservation. In 1979 she...

American Contemporary Marine Biology Underwater

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Ed White

Edward H. White II was an American engineer, United States Air Force officer, and NASA astronaut. During the Gemini 4 mi...

American Space 20TH Century Orbit

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Junko Tabei

Junko Tabei was a Japanese mountaineer who became the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest in 1975. She late...

Mountaineering Japanese 20TH Century Himalaya

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Auguste Piccard

Auguste Piccard was a Swiss physicist, inventor, balloonist, and explorer who investigated both the upper atmosphere and...

Swiss 20TH Century Aerial Underwater Stratosphere Ocean

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Wilfred Thesiger

Wilfred Thesiger was a British explorer who between 1945 and 1950 made two crossings of the Arabian Empty Quarter, becom...

Desert 20TH Century British Terrestrial

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Wanda Rutkiewicz

Wanda Rutkiewicz (1943-1992) was a Polish mountaineer noted for major ascents in the Himalaya and Karakoram. In 1978 she...

Polish Mountaineering 20TH Century Himalaya

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Jim Irwin

James Benson "Jim" Irwin was an American astronaut and Air Force officer who served as lunar module pilot on NASA's Apol...

American Space 20TH Century Moon

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Charlie Duke

Charles "Charlie" Duke is an American former astronaut, engineer, and United States Air Force officer who served as luna...

American Space 20TH Century Moon

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Anatoli Boukreev

Anatoli Boukreev was a Soviet and Kazakh mountaineer and high-altitude guide known for rapid ascents of major Himalayan...

Mountaineering 20TH Century Kazakh Himalaya

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William Beebe

William Beebe was an American naturalist, ornithologist, marine biologist, explorer, and writer associated for much of h...

American 20TH Century Underwater Atlantic

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Hans Hass

Hans Hass (1919–2013) was an Austrian biologist, underwater explorer, and filmmaker who played a major role in populariz...

Austrian 20TH Century Underwater Oceans

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Otis Barton

Otis Barton was an American engineer, inventor, and deep-sea explorer who designed the spherical diving chamber known as...

American 20TH Century Underwater Atlantic

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