Victor Vescovo

The Explorers Club is a very old institution.

Again, I believe it was founded back at the turn of the century, based in New York.

It's kind of an offshoot from the Royal Geographic Society in Britain.

I think us Americans said, well, that's a pretty cool thing.

We want our own.

And so we started the Explorers Club.

Some of the

First members and honorees were Lindbergh, Amundsen, some of the great explorers, Byrd, the people that found the poles, all these other things.

And it's just continued to the present day.

And it just is a congregation of people that meet once a year in New York, but also other times as well.

And we celebrate different successes, try and push each other, continuing to push the boundaries and exploration.

How many people are a part of that?

Gosh.

Oh, wow.

easily above a thousand, but not more than several thousand.

It's semi-exclusive.

You have to be out there doing things.

It's not a membership club or a debate club.

You've got to be in a way, kind of like you've got to be an operator.

Yeah.