EXPLORERS
Geographical presents extracts from four explorers at the RGS-IBG Friday Night Lecture for Explore 2016
Explore 2016: Strange lessons from the wild
Nov 18, 2016
Written by
Laura Cole
Explorers share a strange experience from the wild and what it taught them
Off the beaten path
Nov 18, 2016
Written by
Chris Fitch
A long-term scouting project kicked off this year, to create the first Transcaucasian hiking trail across Georgia and Armenia. Chris Fitch hitched a ride to observe how such an ambitious undertaking can be achieved in this remote and mountainous region
Explore 2016: Past Attendees – Roger Chapman MBE
Nov 18, 2016
Written by
Geographical
While some aspiring expedition leaders and field scientists attend Explore once, many more return year after year, making the journey from delegate to panellist to speaker as their fieldwork and expedition experience grows. Here’s how the annual expedition and field…
Explore 2016: Past Attendees – Ivan Scales
Nov 17, 2016
Written by
Geographical
While some aspiring expedition leaders and field scientists attend Explore once, many more return year after year, making the journey from delegate to panellist to speaker as their fieldwork and expedition experience grows. Here’s how the annual expedition and field…
Explore 2016: Past Attendees – Sam Jones
Nov 16, 2016
Written by
Geographical
While some aspiring expedition leaders and field scientists attend Explore once, many more return year after year, making the journey from delegate to panellist to speaker as their fieldwork and expedition experience grows. Here’s how the annual expedition and field…
Explore 2016: Past Attendees – Tori James
Nov 15, 2016
Written by
Geographical
While some aspiring expedition leaders and field scientists attend Explore once, many more return year after year, making the journey from delegate to panellist to speaker as their fieldwork and expedition experience grows. Here’s how the annual expedition and field…
The world is my classroom
Oct 10, 2016
Written by
Geordie Torr
When Geordie Torr and his partner decided to leave the UK and move back to Australia with their two young daughters, they took the long way, spending six months driving around Europe and then another six travelling home overland
What lies beneath: how the HMS Erebus was discovered
Sep 19, 2016
Written by
Joseph Frey
A chance encounter resulted in the breakthrough set to solve one of exploration history’s biggest mysteries. As the discovery of Franklin’s second ship, the HMS Terror, hits headlines, Joseph Frey tells the amazing story of how his original vessel, HMS…
Has Franklin’s second ship, HMS Terror, finally been discovered?
Sep 19, 2016
Written by
Joseph Frey
Reports that Sir John Franklin’s second ship, HMS Terror, has been discovered off Canada’s King William Island, in aptly named Terror Bay, means a major new piece of the Franklin puzzle has been found
ON THIS DAY: 1916, Shackleton rescues his crew
Aug 30, 2016
Written by
Chris Fitch
Ernest Shackleton faces a race against time to rescue the stranded crew of the Endurance from the harsh winter of Elephant Island
Into the abode of death
Aug 08, 2016
Written by
Mark Evans
After 49 days on foot and by camel, Mark Evans, along with Omani explorers Mohammed Al Zadjali and Amur Al Wahaibi, arrived in Doha having followed the 1930 trail of explorer Bertram Thomas across the Empty Quarter of Arabia
The unsettling sources of the Nile
Jul 13, 2016
Written by
Christopher Ondaatje
The commonly held view of Lake Victoria as the source of the world’s longest river isn’t as clear cut as many would believe. Renowned explorer, author and philanthropist, Sir Christopher Ondaatje, sets out a case for looking further afield
Bolivia: Weaving along the Desaguadero
Jul 04, 2016
Written by
Fearghal O’Nuallain
For geography teacher and adventurer Fearghal O’Nuallain, it took local knowledge and an acceptance of the unknown to make it along Bolivia’s 200-mile river in one piece
The politics of trekking
Jun 06, 2016
Written by
Frank Middleton
Prior to the recent unrest in the Nagorno-Karabakh region in the Lesser Caucasus, writer and filmmaker Frank Middleton encountered first-hand the intricate negotiations involved in simply going for a walk
Spelunking under New York
May 20, 2016
Written by
Steve Duncan
Spelunking? It’s what we would call caving or potholing. And urban spelunking is what it sounds like: exploring cities’ underground infrastructures. Steve Duncan describes the highs and lows, and outlines the kit you’ll need to mount your own metropolitan subterranean…
ON THIS DAY: 1916, Shackleton arrives on South Georgia
May 10, 2016
Written by
Chris Fitch
Striking out in a dangerous attempt to communicate their perilous situation to the outside world, Ernest Shackleton takes a small crew in a lifeboat and sets off on a 750-mile journey from Elephant Island to South Georgia
In the Footsteps of Shackleton
May 02, 2016
Written by
Stephen Venables
Ahead of a return to South Georgia later this year, legendary mountaineer Stephen Venables looks back on his previous recreations of Shackleton’s famous Antarctic crossing 100 years ago
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