What's Cooking Spider-Man? Everest Round-Up, Pringles Fuel an Expedition
EXPEDITION UPDATEBill Steele and Hemirrhagus billsteelei, the spider named in his honor.What's Cooking, Spider-Man?Last time we wrote about world-renowned speleologist Bill Steele, he helped launch the...
View ArticleExploring the "Twilight Zone," Forget About the Moon, Bright Stamp From the...
NASA, NSF PLUNGE INTO OCEAN "TWILIGHT ZONE" TO EXPLORE ECOSYSTEM CARBON FLOW A large multidisciplinary team of scientists, equipped with advanced underwater robotics and an array of analytical...
View ArticleEye Docs Return to Nepal, OR Show's Weirdest Products, Rolex Expands...
EXPEDITION UPDATE Members of the December 2017 Gift of Sight Expedition to Nepal (shown above) will return to the country in October to provide quality eye care, including cataract surgeries. (Photo...
View ArticleRally 'Round the Flag, Boys
EXPEDITION UPDATE Stowe Family Robinson Stowe Away In 2010, artist/long distance sailor Reid Stowe completed history's longest non-stop, self-supported sea voyage - 1,152 days at sea. He began the...
View Article$50 Million Sought to Help Save Ocean Giants; $2K Used Parkas, Whole Foods...
EXPEDITION PHOTOGRAPHER'S MULTI-YEAR PROJECT SEEKS $50 MILLION TO HELP SAVE THE OCEAN GIANTS Amos Nachoum is a wildlife photographer and explorer who is laser-focused on achieving a singular dream: to...
View ArticleWomen Explorers Overwinter in Svalbard
Hearts in the Ice, a new project launched this year, aims to create global dialogue and social engagement around climate change in the Polar Regions. In August 2019, seasoned expedition leaders, Hilde...
View ArticleGreenland Plane Discovery, Holiday Gift Guide
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...
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