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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
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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…
Melting the Ice Curtain: islands on the Russia/US border
Oct 15, 2016
Written by
Laura Cole
Two islands, divided by an international border and separated by geopolitics, are on the verge of being reunited. But will fractured US-Russian relations stand in the way?
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
Chaz Powell: adventurer and expedition leader
Sep 26, 2016
Chaz Powell is an adventurer and expedition leader who is aiming to be the first person to walk the complete 1,600 miles of the Zambezi River
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
Tribal meet: Visually documenting the World Indigenous Games
Aug 04, 2016
Written by
Paul Presley
The Rio Olympic carnival kicks into action this week, but last year Brazil saw competitors gathering for a very different festival of sport
Forever young: Why old age is no barrier for the Master Athletes
Aug 03, 2016
Written by
Paul Presley
While all eyes are on the world’s best athletes in Rio this summer, Geographical looks at the equally competitive, if slightly older, veterans still competing well into their old age
Seoul 1988: Real life in the land of miracles
Aug 02, 2016
Written by
Simon Winchester
Korea, insular and little-known to the Western world, was once dubbed the Hermit Kingdom. Today, given South Korea’s remarkable economic growth, it has earned another name – the land of miracles. Simon Winchester trekked the country hosting the Olympic Games
Greek tragedy: How Greece’s Olympic legacy lies in ruins
Aug 02, 2016
Written by
Amrita Carroll
In the run up to the Rio Olympics, the legacy of the £6billion 2004 Athens Olympics has been laid bare in these revealing images
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