One correction: the picture in the Neil Armstrong section shows Buzz Aldrin and not Neil
As many other Explorers groups or Club you mistake the act of exploration with an act of sports or a simple scientific research...Should be more exact boundaries and not mistake the exploratory personality with the academic establishment.
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Alex
This feat could also make your fine list:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MegaTransect
And Felix Baumgartner instead. Really? Lol
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Stop watching too much Netflix!
I also miss Göran Kropp! His baseline top climb the Everest was the swedish Coast. From there he went by bike including his whole stuff - incl. nutritation for the ascend - to Jiri/Kathmandu, from where he carried like his own yak to the Evererst Base Camp. Summiting alone without Oxygen, survivor of the Everest Desaster 1996. This ist selfsupported.
At least his son Bertrand appears on the list.
The preface to the list says these adventurers and explorers are listed in no particular order.
Not to diminish either of them - have the greatest respect, always.
Ibn Battuta was a great traveler but not in the last 100 years.
Who would you like to include Lisa?
Not sure what you mean by "something new", but if the first ascent of K2 in winter without oxygen doesn't qualify, then neither does what a lot of the others did. How many French? I count at least ten on that list. Looks like that many Italians as well. Half the list are people who hung out in Chamonix.
A good Canadian suggestion! As it stands, there are only two Canadians on the list.
No need for anyone to downvote. Love this list, no objections. I just feel we tend to ignore the contributions Nepali Sherpas have made to mountaineering. Very few climbing expeditions in Nepal can be accomplished without Sherpa's fixing rope and guiding the expeditions. Again, not trying to be negative here. Just want to highlight their contributions. BTW, I am not from Nepal if that makes any difference. Bottomline, all listed in this article are amazing explorers and pathbreakers.
Exploration/adventure is a luxury (for white people), and people of color have had much harder lives over the last 100 years (400 years of slavery). Black Lives Matter in Adventure. Now, you have a group of black climbers heading to Everest that will inspire a new generation of adventurers. Please be more inclusive next year. Good luck.
Exploration/adventure is a luxury, and people of color have had much harder lives over the last 100 years, so it's not surprising that they haven't been climbing mountains or pulling sleds or rowing oceans as often. Happily, that is changing.
You should just call it an oversight and include a person of color. That’s our point. Unfortunately, editorial rooms need to be sensitive to other races.
Adventure should have no boundaries, but the desire to achieve the impossible. People of color shouldn’t be excluded.
We do have Nukapinguaq , Tenzing Norgay and Zhao Kangmin as representatives of non-white ethnicity explorers.
Henson's era was later than 100 years, so we didn't include him just like we didn't include Shackleton or Amundsen. We'd certainly welcome suggestions of Black adventurers for such a list. Some absences are simply oversights.
Shackleton's great achievements were not within the last 100 years.
Sounds like a good #101...
corrected, thank you.
Our intention here was to create a well-researched and considered overview of 100 great explorers. Among those, however, IMO are some who irrefutably would be on any list i.e. Borge Ousland.
I’m not sure I’ve ever seen one though more “senior” members of the CDG may if you contact central they may be able to help https://cavedivinggroup.org.uk/contact/
Nims didn't do something "new". He trained hard, had a great team, logistics and made a fanstastic speed record. It's just a list of 100 that Exweb found. How many French in there who did breakthrough but are not often seen in english speaking world. What about more Russians e.g. ? Ran Fiennes not in it, many National Geographic adventurer of the year not in it. A list of 100 will always forget 900 others worthy and bold persons.
You're right, thank you. We've corrected the error but were only able to find a very low-res image of Jack Sheppard. Do you know of a better one?