Originally posted by jaden101
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 daysthe 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
Thats the ticket!
All the explorers mentioned in the poll were badass men that I would certainly love to emulate. Until some of their other exploits that actually caused the deaths of many, many people came into play.
But... thinking happy thoughts here...I voted for Lewis and Clark. They really didn't know how big this Louisiana Purchase was (really no one did) and they survived over three years with Indian help and their own tough wits. In some of the harshest American weather and terrain too, and they only lost one guy along the way!
Originally posted by Mindset
Neil Armstrong.
Neil Armstrong wasn´t really an explorer was he, he was sent to the moon with the whole mission planned by other people (who might deserve the accolade), getting in a capsule flying about for a couple of weeks then stepping out cannot be compared to say, someone who walks to the north pole, climbs Everest, or endures the years long unknown sea´s of the world like Cook.
Not to mention the possibility that it was all staged anyway.
Not the right place to discuss this. But the Mirrors, unmanned flight could have put it there. My problem is cosmic radiation, the Van Allen belts concerning manned flight.
The whole subject is interesting in many ways, Buzz Aldrin´s addmition that they saw a UFO (youtube it), Nasa "bombing" the moon for some obscure reason, and other odd anomalies.
Originally posted by Bicnarok
Neil Armstrong wasn´t really an explorer was he, he was sent to the moon with the whole mission planned by other people (who might deserve the accolade), getting in a capsule flying about for a couple of weeks then stepping out cannot be compared to say, someone who walks to the north pole, climbs Everest, or endures the years long unknown sea´s of the world like Cook.Not to mention the possibility that it was all staged anyway.
Oh yea, let's see you do it.
Obvious soviet subversive.