Meeting Explorers
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Tamara Lunger - A dreamer in love with the mountains.
17 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
She is an Italian ski-mountaineer and alpinist who has ventured to the high Himalayas to scale 8000 m peaks in winter. She says, "Each moment I spend ...
Pamela Shanti Pack - The ultimate fighting with a rock.
11 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
She is the high priestess of very wide cracks and the ruthless world of inverted off-widths, a search she describes as "the ultimate fighting with a r...
Steve House - the art of alpinism.
18 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Steve is perhaps most notable for his ascent of the Central Pillar of the Rupal Face, a 4100m wall on Nanga Parbat in northern Pakistan with his fello...
Damien Gildea - Mapping and climbing virgin peaks in Antarctica and “The 8000-er Mess”.
16 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Damien is a contributing editor of the American Alpine Journal, he has worked for the prestigious Pilot d'Or, he has led a team that was following the...
Laura Dekker - Youngest person to sail around the world solo.
09 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
New Zealand-born sailor Laura Dekker successfully completed a solo circumnavigation arriving in Simpson Bay, Sint Maarten, 518 days later at the age o...
Jochen Hemmleb - Did George Mallory climb Mount Everest in 1924?
29 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Did George Leigh Mallory with his fellow climbing partner Andrew Comyn Irvine climb Mount Everest already back in 1924? The mystery that surrounds Mal...
Wilson (Wai-Yin) Cheung - The only Chinese Arctic expedition tour guide leader in the world.
19 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Embracing the spirit of adventure, combating climate change, protecting wildlife, how hard work pays off, and putting the magnifying glass on how it’...
Raha Moharrak - First Arab woman to have climbed Mount Everest.
11 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Raha Moharrak is the first Arab woman and youngest Arab to have climbed Mount Everest and the Seven Summits. On the question of why she climbs mountai...
Dennis Åsberg & Peter Lindberg - The mystery around the Baltic Anomaly.
05 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dennis and Peter are most known for their astonishing finding of the Baltic Anomaly on 19th June 2011 which undoubtedly fits as a case for the X-files...
Billi Bierling - Keeping track of all great climbs in the Himalayas.
28 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A person who had no real ambition as an adolescent became a distinguished Himalayan historian, keeping track of all the ambitions climbs in the Himala...
Erden Eruç - First to circumnavigate the world by human power.
19 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The first solo circumnavigation of the world by human power by Turkish-American engineer Erden Eruç. In July 2007, Erden set out from Bodega Bay, nor...
Vanessa O'brien - From top of the world to the deepest place on earth.
13 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Vanessa is a former business executive in the baking world who swapped to an adventurous life with top of the world as well as to the deepest place on...
Roger Nilson - World record sailing around the world.
05 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Roger navigated the Orange II boat during Tropheé Jules Verne in 2005, which then became the fastest boat to circumnavigate the world, but his aptitu...
Karina Oliani - Zip-line across erupting volcano.
29 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Zip lining across erupting volcanoes, petting likely the biggest anaconda ever recorded on video, and diving with sharks to raise awareness of the bru...
Colin Haley - Climbing hard solo, without ropes.
28 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A genuine discourse about the obsession of climbing, risk vs. reward, addiction, and losses. Colin holds the speed records on three of the grandest fa...
Liv Arnesen - First woman to ski across Antarctica
27 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Liv Arnesen and American polar explorer Ann Bancroft become the first women in history to sail and ski across Antarctica’s landmass —...