Meeting Explorers

She is an Italian ski-mountaineer and alpinist who has ventured to the high Himalayas to scale 8000 m peaks in winter. She says, "Each moment I spend in the mountains helps me be increasingly aware o…

She is the high priestess of very wide cracks and the ruthless world of inverted off-widths, a search she describes as "the ultimate fighting with a rock." She has made "over 80 first ascents", many …

Steve is perhaps most notable for his ascent of the Central Pillar of the Rupal Face, a 4100m wall on Nanga Parbat in northern Pakistan with his fellow climber Vince Anderson. They completed the clim…

Damien is a contributing editor of the American Alpine Journal, he has worked for the prestigious Pilot d'Or, he has led a team that was following the footsteps of Robert Falcon Scott, he is author o…

New Zealand-born sailor Laura Dekker successfully completed a solo circumnavigation arriving in Simpson Bay, Sint Maarten, 518 days later at the age of 16 breaking the record for being the youngest t…

Did George Leigh Mallory with his fellow climbing partner Andrew Comyn Irvine climb Mount Everest already back in 1924?

The mystery that surrounds Mallory and his much younger comrade Irvine has capt…

Embracing the spirit of adventure, combating climate change, protecting wildlife, how hard work pays off, and putting the magnifying glass on how it’s like to be a Hong Kong-based explorer.

Wilson ha…

Raha Moharrak is the first Arab woman and youngest Arab to have climbed Mount Everest and the Seven Summits.

On the question of why she climbs mountains, her laconic answer is, “because I was told I …

Dennis and Peter are most known for their astonishing finding of the Baltic Anomaly on 19th June 2011 which undoubtedly fits as a case for the X-files.

A circular object, 60 m in diameter, the wingsp…

A person who had no real ambition as an adolescent became a distinguished Himalayan historian, keeping track of all the ambitions climbs in the Himalayan Database.

Billi became the third German woman…

The first solo circumnavigation of the world by human power by Turkish-American engineer Erden Eruç.

In July 2007, Erden set out from Bodega Bay, north of San Francisco, aiming to become the first pe…

Vanessa is a former business executive in the baking world who swapped to an adventurous life with top of the world as well as to the deepest place on earth, the Challenger deep, in her CV. 

During t…

Roger navigated the Orange II boat during Tropheé Jules Verne in 2005, which then became the fastest boat to circumnavigate the world, but his aptitude in navigating in our inner realm is just as fas…

Zip lining across erupting volcanoes, petting likely the biggest anaconda ever recorded on video, and diving with sharks to raise awareness of the brutal slaughter of these apex predators.

Karina is …

A genuine discourse about the obsession of climbing, risk vs. reward, addiction, and losses.

Colin holds the speed records on three of the grandest faces of the Central Alaska Range: south face of De…

Liv Arnesen and American polar explorer Ann Bancroft become the first women in history to sail and ski across Antarctica’s landmass — completing a 94-day, 1,717-mile (2,747 km) trek.

Liv have had to …