Martin Strel

Martin Strel

male, 55 years old
Martin Strel (born October 1 1954 is a Slovenian ultra marathon swimmer, best known for swimming the entire length of various rivers, including the...
Francisco de Orellana

Francisco de Orellana

male, deceased (1549)
Francisco de Orellana (c. 1500 - c. 1549) was a Spanish explorer and conquistador. Orellana took part in the Spanish conquest of Peru with...
Alfred Russel Wallace

Alfred Russel Wallace

male, deceased (1913)
Alfred Russel Wallace OM, FRS (8 January 1823 - 7 November 1913) was a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist. He...
Colin Angus

Colin Angus

male
Colin is no stranger to adventure. As a teenager he embarked on a five year mostly solo offshore sailing journey. He then went on to complete the...
Pedro Teixeira

Pedro Teixeira

male, deceased (1640)
Pedro Teixeira was a portuguese explorer commissioned by the governor of Maranhão to explore the Amazon in 1637. In 1638, he became the first e...
Charles Marie de la Condamine

Charles Marie de la Condamine

male, deceased (1774)
Charles Marie de La Condamine (January 28, 1701 - February 4, 1774) was a French geographer and mathematician. La Condamine was born in Paris. He...

Joe Kane

male
Joe Kane is an American author of two books and a journalist who writes for numerous publications such "The New Yorker", "National Geographic" and...

Vicente Yáñez Pinzón

male, deceased (1523)
Vicente Yáñez Pinzón was a Spanish navigator, explorer, and conquistador. Along with his older brother Martin Alonzo Pinzón, he sailed with Chri...
Richard Evans Schultes

Richard Evans Schultes

male, deceased (2001)
Richard Evans Schultes (January 12, 1915 - April 10, 2001) may be considered the father of modern ethnobotany, not only in his devotion to the...
Ted Lewin

Ted Lewin

male, 74 years old
Ted Lewin is an author/illustrator of children's books. Lewin and his wife Betsy Reilly drew on their travels to exotic places such as the Amazon...