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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Conrad Anker

Conrad Anker is an American mountaineer known for expeditions in the Himalaya, Antarctica, and other remote mountain reg...

American Contemporary Mountaineering Himalaya Antarctic

7.5 Good

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Will Steger

Will Steger is a prominent American explorer, educator, and environmentalist known for his extensive and unprecedented p...

American Contemporary Polar Arctic Antarctic

7.4 Good

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Ann Bancroft

Ann Bancroft is an American explorer, author, and educator renowned for her pioneering polar expeditions. In 1986, she b...

American Contemporary Polar Arctic Antarctic

7.2 Good

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Tori Murden McClure

Tori Murden McClure is an American adventurer, author, and academic administrator known for long-distance rowing and pol...

American Contemporary Maritime Atlantic

7.0 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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Colin O'Brady

Colin O'Brady is an American endurance athlete and explorer who completed a solo, unsupported, human-powered crossing of...

American Contemporary Polar Antarctic

6.8 Fair

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Eric Larsen

Eric Larsen is an American polar explorer, expedition leader, and guide known for human-powered journeys in Arctic and A...

American Contemporary Polar Arctic Antarctic

6.6 Fair

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Mark Synnott

Mark Synnott is an American professional rock climber, author, and National Geographic Explorer. His work combines techn...

American Contemporary Global Mountaineering

6.5 Fair