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Outdoor Community Rallies to Support Nepal
Hard to believe. Another spring and reports of more misery and suffering in Nepal, only this time on a scale of unimaginable proportions. When a 7.9 magnitude earthquake centered approximately 50 miles...
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Hams Help to Fund Expeditions
EXPEDITION NOTESCanadian Astronaut Has the Right Mettle to Appear on MedalIn a running race where competitors vote on who is on the medal, retired Canadian astronaut Col. Chris Hadfield was named a...
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Inspiring Tourists to Support Expedition Research
Each boreal summer, Poseidon Expeditions runs trips for adventurous travelers to Franz Josef Land and the North Pole on the 50 Let Pobedy, a 524-ft. Russian Arktika-class icebreaker. This year there is...
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Couple Plans to Spend a Year in the Wilderness
Educators and explorers Dave and Amy Freeman kick off "A Year in the Wilderness" next month, continuing their efforts to gain permanent protection for the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in...
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Mega Expedition Returns From Great Garbage Patch
BANCROFT'S NEXT PROJECT FOCUSES ON WATER EDUCATIONIn 1986, explorer Ann Bancroft was the only female member of the Steger North Pole Expedition. It was just Ann, seven men and 49 male dogs. As a...
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Jane Goodall Packs the House
THE BORNEO MEGATRANSECTTrevor Wallace, 25, an explorer and filmmaker from Boston, will travel to Borneo in spring 2016 to chart unmapped lands belonging to the Dayak tribes of the vast jungles of the...
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Climber Eats Bugs for Two Weeks on El Cap
SUMMIT-TO-SEA PLANS STUDY OF AMERICA'S GLACIERSThe Summit-to-Sea project is a collaborative research and exploration effort whose core mission is to raise awareness on how glacial melt and receding...
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Climber Sets Eiger Record; Greatest Cave on Earth
EXPEDITION NOTESThe Swiss Machine Sets Eiger RecordMountain Hardwear athlete Ueli Steck clocked a successful two hour, 22 minute summit of the Eiger Heckmair Route, breaking his previous record and...
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Scholarships Available for Student Polar Ambassadors
Outdoor Retailer Show Round-UpOnce again, explorers, adventurers and retailers throughout North America and parts of the world converged on Salt Lake City for the bi-annual Outdoor Retailer convention....
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"Misfit Explorers" Discover Nothing
SEARCHING FOR DINOSAURS IN ANTARCTICAAn international team of researchers supported by the National Science Foundation will journey to Antarctica this month to search for evidence that the now-frozen...
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One Small Slurp for Mankind
EXPEDITION UPDATEMinnesota Explorers Mark 30th Anniversary ofHistoric North Pole Expedition with New AdventuresThirty years ago last March 7, an eight-member team that included Minnesotans Will Steger,...
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Young Scientist Searches for "Ground Truth" on Baffin Island
She's only 30, but Boulder, Colo. explorer Ulyana N. Horodyskyj has a Ph.D. in geological sciences, has tested spacesuits in a Falcon 20 "vomit comet," and ridden a human centrifuge at the National...
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79-Year-Old American Hopes to Clear the Air in Nepal
EXPEDITION NOTESAll hands on deck (Photo credit: Peder Jacobsson)World's Largest Viking Ship Heads to New WorldLast month, the world's largest Viking ship, Draken Harald HÃ¥rfagre, set sail from her...
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Everest Corpses Get Nicknames; Solar Impulse Nails JFK Landing Without Fuel
EXPEDITION UPDATESolar-powered Airplane Aces Nighttime Landing at JFKEN was there when a solar-powered aircraft, like a giant dragon fly - to some it looked like a UFO - slowly descended from the skies...
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Fuhgeddaboudit! Scientists Eavesdrop on NYC-area Whales
TEAM SEARCHES FOR NATIVE INSECT SPECIES ON EASTER ISLANDToday, Rapa Nui (Easter Island) is quite different from what the first Polynesian navigators experienced. As moai were carved and these...
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Alaskan Explorer is in it for the Long Haul
JOE HENDERSON: IN IT FOR THE LONG HAUL Arctic explorer Joe Henderson and wilderness guide Rhonda Schrader announced the launch of a new environmental project called the Henderson Haul Operation...
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Crowdsourcing Effort Raises $199K for Unsuccessful Rescue
EXPEDITION NOTESU.S. Climbers Presumed Dead in Pakistan; $199K Crowdsourced for Rescue A search for two missing U.S. mountaineers in northeast Pakistan has been called off, despite a GoFundMe campaign...
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Crowdsourcing Effort Raises $199K for Unsuccessful Rescue
EXPEDITION NOTESU.S. Climbers Presumed Dead in Pakistan; $199K Crowdsourced for Rescue A search for two missing U.S. mountaineers in northeast Pakistan has been called off, despite a GoFundMe campaign...
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"The World Needs More Explorers"
EXPEDITION UPDATENew Documentary Places Global Fashion Industry on Notice RiverBlue is a new documentary that chronicles an around-the-world river adventure, led by paddler and river conservationist,...
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Seeking the Most Inaccessible Places on Earth
IRISH ADVENTURER SEEKS POLES OF INACCESSIBILITYStudy maps long enough and you're bound to identify a challenge not yet met. Such was the case of the late businessman Dick Bass in 1985 who targeted...
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