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Reinhold Messner

Reinhold Messner is an Italian mountaineer, explorer, and author known for high-altitude climbing undertaken with minima...

Italian Mountaineering 20TH Century Himalaya

9.2 Excellent

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Edmund Hillary

Sir Edmund Hillary was a New Zealand mountaineer and explorer who, with the Sherpa climber Tenzing Norgay, reached the s...

Mountaineering 20TH Century Himalaya New Zealander

9.1 Excellent

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Tenzing Norgay

Tenzing Norgay was a Nepali-Indian Sherpa mountaineer who, alongside Edmund Hillary, made the first confirmed ascent of...

Mountaineering 20TH Century Himalaya Nepali

9.1 Excellent

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Ernest Shackleton

Ernest Shackleton was an Anglo-Irish explorer whose 1914–16 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition became famous for his le...

20TH Century Endurance British Polar

9.0 Excellent

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Jerzy Kukuczka

Jerzy Kukuczka was a Polish mountaineer who in 1987 became the second person to climb all fourteen mountains higher than...

Polish Mountaineering 20TH Century Himalaya

8.9 Great

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Alex Honnold

Alex Honnold is an American rock climber known for free-solo climbing, in which a climber ascends without ropes or prote...

American Contemporary Mountaineering North America

8.8 Great

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Don Walsh

Don Walsh was an American naval officer, oceanographer, and specialist in deep-sea exploration. On 23 January 1960, he a...

American 20TH Century Underwater Mariana Trench

8.4 Great

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Jacques Piccard

Jacques Piccard was a Swiss oceanographer and engineer known for developing and piloting deep-diving bathyscaphes. On 23...

Swiss 20TH Century Underwater Mariana Trench

8.4 Great

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Joshua Slocum

Joshua Slocum was a Canadian-born American mariner and writer who completed the first documented solo circumnavigation o...

American Global 19TH Century Maritime

8.4 Great

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Meriwether Lewis

Meriwether Lewis was an American army officer and explorer who, with William Clark, led the Lewis and Clark Expedition f...

American 19TH Century North America Terrestrial

8.3 Great

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Tommy Caldwell

Tommy Caldwell is an American rock climber known for difficult free climbs, big-wall routes, and sustained climbing on Y...

American Contemporary Mountaineering North America

8.3 Great

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Victor Vescovo

Victor Vescovo is an American private-equity investor, retired naval officer, and undersea explorer. He led the Five Dee...

American Contemporary Underwater Five Deeps

8.2 Great

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Ed White

Edward H. White II was an American engineer, United States Air Force officer, and NASA astronaut. During the Gemini 4 mi...

American Space 20TH Century Orbit

8.1 Great

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Peggy Whitson

Peggy Whitson is an American biochemist, astronaut, and former NASA chief astronaut who has completed multiple long dura...

American Contemporary Space Iss

8.0 Great

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Jim Irwin

James Benson "Jim" Irwin was an American astronaut and Air Force officer who served as lunar module pilot on NASA's Apol...

American Space 20TH Century Moon

7.8 Good

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William Beebe

William Beebe was an American naturalist, ornithologist, marine biologist, explorer, and writer associated for much of h...

American 20TH Century Underwater Atlantic

7.8 Good

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Scott Kelly

Scott Kelly is a retired American astronaut, former naval aviator, and veteran of four spaceflights. From March 2015 to...

American Contemporary Space Iss

7.7 Good

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Matthew Henson

Matthew Henson was an American Arctic explorer who participated in several expeditions led by Robert Peary and became on...

American 20TH Century Polar Arctic

7.6 Good

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Otis Barton

Otis Barton was an American engineer, inventor, and deep-sea explorer who designed the spherical diving chamber known as...

American 20TH Century Underwater Atlantic

7.0 Good

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Robert Peary

Robert Peary was an American naval officer and Arctic explorer. During an expedition in 1908 and 1909, he claimed to hav...

American 20TH Century Polar Arctic

6.9 Fair