Edmund Hillary

Edmund Hillary

male, deceased (2008) (New Zealand)
Sir Edmund Percival Hillary, KG, ONZ, KBE (born 20 July 1919) is a New Zealand mountaineer and explorer. Hillary and Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing...
Krzysztof Wielicki

Krzysztof Wielicki

male, 59 years old
Krzysztof Wielicki (born January 5, 1950 in Szklarka Przygodzicka, Poland) - Polish alpine and high-altitude climber. One of the most outstanding...
Will Steger

Will Steger

male, 66 years old
Will Steger (born 1943 at Richfield, Minnesota) is a prominent spokesperson for the understanding and preservation of the Arctic and has led some...

Richard Ellis

male
Richard Ellis is a marine biologist. He is a research associate in the American Museum of Natural History's division of paleontology, special...
Wally Herbert

Wally Herbert

male, deceased (2007)
Sir Walter William "Wally" Herbert (24 October 1934 - 12 June 2007) was a British polar explorer, writer and artist. In 1969 he became the first...
Erik Lindbergh

Erik Lindbergh

male, 44 years old
Erik Lindbergh (born 1965) is an aviator, a promoter of space tourism and artist. Son of Jon Lindbergh and Barbara Robbins, he is the grandson of...
Les Guthman

Les Guthman

male
Les Guthman is a film director and producer, who has the distinction of both having won the National Academy of Science’s (U.S) nationwide co...
Dava Sobel

Dava Sobel

female, 62 years old
Dava Sobel (born 1947) is a writer of popular expositions of scientific topics. She graduated from the Bronx High School of Science and Binghamton...
Eugene Cernan

Eugene Cernan

male, 75 years old
Eugene Andrew Cernan (born March 14, 1934) is a former American astronaut of Czech and Slovak ancestry. He has been into space three times: as...
William F. Readdy

William F. Readdy

male, 57 years old
William Francis "Bill" Readdy is a former Associate Administrator of the Office of Space Flight, at NASA Headquarters. He was born January 24,...