TRAVELLING the DISTANCE
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| Polar explorers Byrd and Amundsen (hr) |
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| Byrd´s Fokker "Josephine Ford" 1926; |
| Peary and first transartic flyer Riiser-Larsen |
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| John Hunt led the successfull Everest 1953 |
| Expedition enabling Hillary and Tenzing to |
| reach "the Top of the World"; Hillary later |
| explored the Antarctic; Messner refused oxygene |
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| The prominent German naturalist |
| Alexander von Humboldt, British |
| journalist explorer Henry Stanley |
| and Greenland traveller V.Stefansson |
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| Railway promotor G.Train (!) travelled |
| round-the-World four times, three on |
| new record times 80, 67½ and 60 days! |
| Kunst was the first to walk the distance! |
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| Fuchs led the first trans-arctic expedition 1957-58 |
| Paul-Emile Victor explored Greenland in the 50´s, |
| Polish Marek Kaminski went solo-skiing to both |
| poles within the year 1995, though transglobal! |
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| Kurt Diemberger was the first to ascend |
| both Broad Peak (1957) and Dhulagiri (1960) |
| both peaks beyond 8.000 meters. He and Buhl |
| are the only ones to pioneer two "+8.000" peaks |
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| Ralph Fiennes led the first transglobal expedition |
| (along the Greenwich meredian) 1979-82 |
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| The long norwegian Polar tradition are |
| kept alive by Ousland, Kagge and Arnesen! |
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| norwegian polar adventurers |
| Börje Ousland and Erling Kagge |
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| the ultimate antarctic hero Ernest Shackleton (hr) |
| demonstrated everything that the british would |
| stand for exploring the World at hight of power! |
| american Isaac Hayes explored the Canadian Artic |
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| Women´s first to reach the South |
| norwegian Liv Arnesen and american |
| Ann Bancroft, both experianced polar |
| bears, challenging any male adventurer |
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| Wally Herbert stressing the importance |
| of sledge dogs in polar travel and the |
| first female South Pole crossing duo |
| american Bancroft and norwegian Arnesen |
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| a short note from italian Lino Lacedelli about his |
| K2 partner Achilles Compagnoni; signed photos of |
| Peter Habeler and Reinhold Messner, who jointly |
| reached the top of the World without oxygene |
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| Achille Compagnoni, co-conquerer of K2, |
| typing a short letter of reply adding a |
| photo from the top of K2, with the Italian |
| flag left for future climbers to envy |
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| Mountaineers Kammerlander, Habeler, photo- |
| interested Diemberger, Wintersteller and |
| Schmuck; Göran Kropp cycling forth and back |
| to Everest carrying everything himself (story) |
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| K2 was conquered by Lacedelli of the |
| Italian Desio Exp.; Herzog climbed |
| Annapurna; Mountaineering was a 1932 |
| Olympic event won by Franz Schmid ! |
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| Diemberger, Schmuck, Wintersteller climbed Broad |
| Peak; Compagnoni and Lacedelli reached K2 |
| Messner "everested" without oxygene with Habeler |
| and "traversed" Gasherbrun with Kammerlander |
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| Swedish explorers Andrée, attempting |
| to reach the North Pole with a balloon! |
| Central Asian explorer Sven Hedin and |
| Nordenskiöld finding the NE Passage |
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| Helmer Hansen´s sledge-driving skills, when joining |
| Amundsen to the South Pole was probably decisive |
| the three swedish airmen Christell, Rosensvärd and |
| Schyberg found the lost Nobile research party |
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| the six Kon-Tiki 1947 multi-national sailing crew |
| with Thor Heyerdahl, warhero Knut Haugland, who |
| participated in the Norsk Hydro sabotage and |
| Danielsson, who opposed nuclear tests in Polynesia |
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the quest in open seas
and deepths down below |
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| Polish Krystyna Chojnowska-Likiewicz was |
| the first female to yatch the Globe 1976-78 |
| via the Suez, closely followed by british |
| Naomi James, although challenging "the Horn" |
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| New Zealander Peter Blake won |
| America´s Cup and the Whitbread |
| before sadly beeing killed by |
| robbers sailing the Amazonas |
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| Skip Dennis Conner twice won |
| prestigeous America´s Cup |
| He often uses an autopen for |
| answering mail - so beware! |
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| Gertrude Ederle was the first woman to |
| swim the Channel; She also beat the men´s |
| record for 24 years! Chadwick followed |
| McClean was the first to row the Atlantic. |
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| Francis Chichester circumnavigated the |
| Globe solo 1966-67, breaking 8 World Records |
| and yatching CNN owner Ted Turner |
| happily won the America´s Cup 1977 |
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| The artic was crossed down under by Capt |
| Anderson in "USS Nautilus"and Calvert |
| both commanded followers and formulated |
| the Cold War sub-nuke strategies |
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| If there´s a hero in modern research |
| it´s Thor Heyerdahl, who firmly proved |
| his ridiculed migration theory, assisted |
| by war hero Haugland, Danielsson et al. |
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| Don Walsh and Jacques Piccard descended |
| the Marianer Grave (10.916 meter!) in an |
| own bathyscope construction; Robert Ballard |
| localised "Titanic", "Bismarck" and "Yorktown" |
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| The submarine capabilities was boldly |
| demostrated in WWII by CMH awarded |
| Fluckey and Ted Beach, who in 1960 |
| commanded "USS Trition" round-the-sub |
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| Norwegian Thor Heyerdahl proved his |
| impossible theories with Kon-Tiki with |
| Danielsson, Haugland and others; Welsh |
| and Piccard dived the Marianer Grave |
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| the suisse Jacques Piccard helped his |
| father exploring the deepths by own |
| constructed bathyscopes. In 1960 he |
| and Walsh reached the Marianer Grave |
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| Letter from oceanographer Robert Ballard |
| who became a celebrity, when finding and |
| filming the liner Titanic 1985, creating |
| a Titanic epedemy evolving in "The Movie" |
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