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I'm going to go with Armstrong...
Even though he knew where he was going, knew with some degree of accuracy how it would be like there, where he would land how long it would take to get there and all that other crap. He's still the first guy to ever walk on that stupid orb in the sky that people have aspired to reach for thousands and thousands of years.
But in all honesty the choice is mostly because I can't find anyone on that list that I find more worthy then all the others. and like my gym coach always said, "if you don't know who to pick for your team, just pick the tallest"
Where is Ferdinand Magellan? Im surprised he's not on the poll. Him and his crew eat rats and wood shavings just to circumnavigate the world. Their ships have leaking holes and the only thing that kept them afloat is ceaseless manual labor, day and night for 5 years, of plugging the holes and throwing the water out.
Roald Amundsen, Scott, Shackleton and all the other explorers of the harshest place on the planet, Antarctica, deserve some props.
Thor Heyerdahl should be in with a shout.
personally i'd say Sir Ranulph Fiennes....1st man to completely cross antarctica on foot...his transglobe expedition...the fact that he sufferered a serious heart attack and the next year ran 7 marathons on 7 continents in 7 days
the fact that after he failed to reach the north pole unaided due to serious frost bite and was told to allow the fingertips to grow as much healthy tissue back possible before amputation....he got tired of the pain and cut them off in his own shed with a saw
he's also climbed 6 of the worlds 7 highest mountains despite suffering severaly from vertigo
not to mention he's been in the SAS and was on a short list to be James Bond after George Lazenby despite having no acting experience...thats nothing to do with adventuring or discovering...its just purely for the coolness factor...haha
Without doubt the following single man......
Captain James Cook RN - RS !!!
Surely the greatest Cartographer, Navigator, Seaman, Explorer, Humanitarian, Salty Sea Dog and Yorkshireman EVER !
Helped in the 'Transit of Venus' in Tahiti, unbelivably accurate, before finding many of the Polyenesian Islands, New Zealand and Australia for the first time ! travelled the furthest South until 1911. Chartered most of Western Canada looking for the NW Passage and found Hawaii - before losing his life there.
Even 2 of the Space Shuttles are named after his Ships - The 'Endeavour' and 'Discovery' - Even N.A.S.A. are Impressed by him !!
We should all learn from him and his behaviour !
'Behold, his deeds are too numerous surely for one man !'
Respectfully and in Memoradium.