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PLANE CRASH SITE REVEALS NEW WWII PLANE DISCOVERY IN GREENLAND New data about the location of the wreckage of a J2F-4 Grumman Duck airplane carrying three military flyers, which crashed on the ice...
View ArticleAntarctic "Crossing" Stirs Controversy; Queen Guitarist Composes Flyby Song
PADDLING THE NORTHWEST PASSAGE By Pam LeBlanc, Special Correspondent Austin, Texas, paddler West Hansen will trade Amazon tropics and Russian waves for crushing ice and polar bears next summer, when he...
View ArticleSearch for Shackleton's Endurance was a Nice Try
The final sinking of the Endurance. It was abandoned in November 2015 as the masts collapsed, the hull crumbled, and the men watched helplessly from the ice as their boat sank. The rest is history....
View ArticleWorld's Most Adventurous Women; Protecting Astronaut Poop
EXPEDITION UPDATE The adventurous UlyanaUlyana Horodyskyj is One of World's Most Adventurous Women"For me, science and adventure go hand-in-hand," says Ulyana Horodyskyj, who we profiled in our June...
View ArticleExplorers Club Dinner Sets Record; Aldrin's Socks Dazzle, Read Excerpt From...
EXPEDITION NOTES Lower Cost ROV Makes Deep Sea Exploration More Affordable At a time when AUVs (autonomous underwater vehicles that look like fat yellow torpedos) cost upwards of $5 million, along...
View ArticleAll Female Expedition to Study Plastic Pollution
ALL FEMALE EXPEDITION TO STUDYPLASTIC POLLUTION ON THE GANGESAn international, all-female expedition team leaves this spring to study plastic pollution in one of the world's most iconic waterways - the...
View ArticleThe Everest Mess; Submersible Dive Sets World Record
EVEREST ROUND-UP Examining the Everest Mess We would be hard-pressed to think of an Everest climbing season since the May 1996 disaster when Everest received as much negative publicity as it did this...
View ArticleSPECIAL EDITION: 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FIRST MOON LANDING
The World Pauses to Remember the First Moon Landing Welcome to the first Special Edition of Expedition News in our almost 25-year history. When it comes right down to it, what exploration was more...
View ArticleBob Ballard Searches for Amelia, Seeking Young Explorers
Scientists measure the concentration of bio-microplastics accumulated by mussels and determine the content of pollutants in its tissues. Photo by ©Elodie Bernollin / Tara Ocean FoundationTARA OCEAN...
View ArticleAmelia's Plane Still Missing, Testing Mars Suit in Iceland, Transgender Woman...
EXPEDITION UPDATE Amelia Earhart's Lockheed Electra 10E continues to elude searchers. Amelia's Plane Remains Missing The search for Amelia Earhart's Lockheed Electra 10E Special is over for the...
View ArticleOur 25th Anniversary Issue!
EXPEDITION NOTESNina Williams appears in In The High Road (Photo by Brett Lowell)REEL ROCK 14 Begins Film TourREEL ROCK Film Tour, featuring exceptional climbing films for the past 14 years, returns...
View Article12 Questions for Pluto Explorer; Wings Over Tanzania
Osa and Martin JohnsonWINGS OVER TANZANIALong before the very first wildlife documentary, an American couple named Martin and Osa Johnson captured the public's imagination from 1917-1937 through their...
View ArticleTen Questions for Underwater Explorer Barry Clifford
EXPEDITION UPDATE Members of the 1990 International Polar Expedition met with Kyoto Mayor Daisaku Kadokawa (center) and the city's environmental minister, Takeshi Shimotsuma (far right) to discuss the...
View ArticleResearchers Find 2,600-Year-Old Brain; Explorers Club Explores Deal with...
EXPEDITION NOTESCitizen of the World is a very highly modified Twin Turbine Commander 900Citizen of the World Aircraft Expedition Aims For the PolesAn aircraft titled Citizen of the World, began the...
View ArticleTitanic Struck by Submersible; NatGeo Examines O'Brady Antarctica Claims
SEARCHING FOR THE GHOSTS OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA'S WWII PASTIn 2018, author, adventurer, and television producer James Campbell, 58, helped to organize a trek across Papua New Guinea on a WWII trail that...
View ArticleNO COVID-19 DEATHS IN NEPAL, BUT SHERPAS SUFFER ECONOMICALLY
For those of us with many friends among the Sherpas, and memories of expeditions to its fabled peaks, we're pleasantly surprised that Nepal remains relatively unscathed by the coronavirus crisis, with...
View ArticleTV Show Seeks Field Technician; Dog Sniffs Out Whale Poop
EXPEDITION NOTESUnalaska, Alaska, is the chief center of population in the Aleutian Islands.Field Technician Needed for TV Documentary Set in AleutiansA television production company with a track...
View ArticleCursing Like a Sailor; More Diversity Needed in Exploration
EXPEDITION NOTESKathryn D. Sullivan is a record-setter. She's seen holding the Explorers Club flag which was awarded by TEC's Flag and Honors Committee, to be presented back to the Club at a later...
View ArticleCollector is No. 1 in Dinosaur No. 2 Field
EXPEDITION UPDATEErin Parisi plans Everest attempt in Spring 2021Erin Parisi Sets Sights on Becoming First Known Transgender Person to Climb EverestErin Parisi is setting out to make history as the...
View ArticleRecord Year in 2021 Expected on Mt. Everest; Pilot Marks 30 Years Searching...
EXPEDITION NOTESTraffic jam on Everest, May 2019.Everest Chronicler Decries Crowding and Lack of Government ManagementAlan Arnette, 64, founder of the popular website AlanArnette.com told an Explorers...
View ArticleWomen Explorers Face Sexism in the Arctic
Elcano 500, Jimmy Cornell's new Outremer 4X catamaran. Photo courtesy of Jimmy Cornell.ELECTRIC SAILBOAT CELEBRATES WORLD'SFIRST CIRCUMNAVIGATIONAuthor, sailor and event organizer Jimmy Cornell has...
View ArticleDoes Everest Come with a Money Back Guarantee? Explorers Club Discovery...
October 2020 – Volume Twenty-Six, Number Ten Celebrating our 26th year this month! EXPEDITION NEWS, founded in 1994, is the monthly review of significant expeditions, research projects and newsworthy...
View ArticleEnough Already With Offensive Route Names; Flights to Everest Resume; What...
November 2020 – Volume Twenty-Six, Number Eleven Celebrating our 26th year. EXPEDITION NEWS, founded in 1994, is the monthly review of significant expeditions, research projects and newsworthy...
View ArticleSocially Distance Yourself Like a Pro
EXPEDITION NOTES Officials from Nepal's Survey Department measuring the height of Mount Everest. (Nepal Survey Department/Nepal Survey Department) World’s Tallest Peak is Even Higher After more than a...
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