Quotes About Expedition

Why must we climb away to the seal-less parts of the world?

in early 1854 Lt. Amiel Weeks Whipple was sent to map a route from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. Whipple was a thirty-seven-year-old West Point graduate from Massachusetts, known for his competence and conscientiousness

Traveling with more than a hundred men, from engineers, cartographers, and geologists to astronomers, meteorologists, and botanists, as well as soldiers and guides, Whipple trudged through present-day Oklahoma, Texas, and New Mexico, into what would become Arizona, on a path that vaguely foreshadowed today's Route 66. The group was guided along the way by Indians — Creeks, Shawnees, and Zunis. But it was the Mohaves who would lead Whipple on the final leg of the journey.2 On

Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

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Lizzie" or a "Flivver.

Attached to the survey was William Phipps Blake, a young geologist from a prominent Eastern family. Blake's party failed to discern a suitable railroad route, but he did stumble upon a remarkable geologic feature in the trackless desert.

under the same cross that Christopher Columbus's three caravels crossed the Atlantic to the New World.

I was no longer the frightened obsessive who'd cowered in the storm and fought an illusory battle with a log. I was Jack Miller, the man who's keeping the 1937 Spitsbergen Expedition alive against all the odds.

knew then it was hopeless. I couldn't be part of their expedition. If I can't put up with them for a couple of hours, how could I stand a whole year? I'd end up killing someone.

He had died in silence as he had lived,' wrote expedition photographer Mario Fantin, 'almost tip-toeing out of life in order not to disturb the people in the tent next to him.'1

He was appalled to see the expedition so casually misreported. Like everyone else in the team, Hunt thought that the issue of who had stepped on the summit first was absurd but he was also irked by repeated references to Tenzing "having guided" the British team. The Everest victory was the result of teamwork and everyone had played a role.

This was a key moment in the expedition. In years to come, the crack would become known as 'House's Chimney', K2's equivalent of the 'Hillary Step' on Everest. Future generations of climbers would marvel at the skill, and guts, of the man who first climbed it.

Remember, those who are teaching you to remain in one place explored everything around them.

They were all to cross the Atlantic and link up with Admiral Missiessy off Martinique.

It was a mammoth undertaking, throwing an army across the Channel,

discovery rather than invention, exploration rather than creation.

Magozzi tried to grimace away a growing headache. He wanted to curl up in a ball in the corner, but when Gino was on a fishing expedition for mermaids, you had to throw in a courtesy line.

seen Blue Water, White Death, the 1971 feature film that, for me, remains the finest documentary ever made about sharks.

Around them, the rest of the thirty-strong fleet was moving, spreading wide as they left the three habitats behind, assuming the broad circular formation that they would maintain for the next hundred thirty-seven light-years.

country, although hitherto difficult to reach. But Bell had solved the problem by ordering a thirty-five-foot-long steam launch from England, which was assembled in sections of about 150 pounds each. It was the perfect boat for hunting the many islands in the Ubangi, as it burned abundant wood for fuel and had a very shallow draught.

Jack didn't want to throw shadow onto the trip; there was nothing worse on any expedition than a naysayer.

They agreed to make ships to go to Tarshish, and these were built in Ezion-geber.