swap_horiz Chris Hadfield Alternatives

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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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Robin Knox-Johnston

Sir Robin Knox-Johnston is a British sailor who became the first person to complete a solo, nonstop circumnavigation of...

Contemporary Global British Maritime

8.5 Great

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Ranulph Fiennes

Sir Ranulph Fiennes is a British explorer, expedition leader, author, and former soldier. With Charles Burton, he comple...

Contemporary British Polar Arctic Antarctic

8.3 Great

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Børge Ousland

Børge Ousland is a Norwegian polar explorer known for long-distance expeditions in the Arctic and Antarctic. In 1994 he...

Contemporary Norwegian Polar Arctic Antarctic

8.3 Great

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Ueli Steck

Ueli Steck was a Swiss alpinist and speed climber known for rapid ascents of technically demanding routes in the Alps an...

Swiss Contemporary Mountaineering Himalaya Alps

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 Viesturs

Ed Viesturs is an American high-altitude mountaineer known for climbing all fourteen mountains higher than 8,000 metres...

American Contemporary Mountaineering Himalaya

8.2 Great

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Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner

Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner is an Austrian mountaineer known for high-altitude climbing in the Himalaya and Karakoram. In 201...

Austrian Contemporary Mountaineering Himalaya

8.2 Great

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Sylvia Earle

Sylvia Earle is an American marine biologist, oceanographer, explorer, and advocate for marine conservation. In 1979 she...

American Contemporary Marine Biology Underwater

8.1 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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Krzysztof Wielicki

Krzysztof Wielicki is a Polish mountaineer known for high-altitude climbing in the Himalaya and Karakoram. With Leszek C...

Polish Contemporary Mountaineering Himalaya

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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Nirmal Purja

Nirmal Purja is a Nepal-born mountaineer and former member of the British armed forces who became known for rapid high-a...

Contemporary Mountaineering Himalaya Nepali British

8.0 Great

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Denis Urubko

Denis Urubko is a Kazakh born mountaineer who has represented Kazakhstan, Russia, and Poland during different periods of...

Contemporary Mountaineering Himalaya Winter Eight Thousanders

8.0 Great

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Ellen MacArthur

Ellen MacArthur is a British sailor known for long-distance solo ocean racing. In February 2005 she completed a nonstop,...

Contemporary Global British Maritime

7.9 Good

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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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Charlie Duke

Charles "Charlie" Duke is an American former astronaut, engineer, and United States Air Force officer who served as luna...

American Space 20TH Century Moon

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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Tim Peake

Tim Peake is a British astronaut and former Army Air Corps officer who was selected for the European Space Agency's astr...

Contemporary Space British Iss

7.0 Good