Steve Fossett

Steve Fossett

male, 65 years old
James Stephen Fossett (born April 22, 1944, in Jackson, Tennessee) is a American aviator and adventurer known for his appetite to set world...
Marco Polo

Marco Polo

male, deceased (1324)
Marco Polo (September 15 1254 - January 9 1324 at earliest but no later than June 1325) was a Venetian trader and explorer who gained fame for his...
Steve Irwin

Steve Irwin

male, deceased (2006)
Stephen Robert "Steve" Irwin, nicknamed "The Crocodile Hunter", was an Australian wildlife expert and television personality. He achieved...
T. E. Lawrence

T. E. Lawrence

male, deceased (1935)
Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence, CB, DSO (August 16, 1888 - May 19, 1935), known professionally as T. E. Lawrence, was a British soldier...
Thor Heyerdahl

Thor Heyerdahl

male, deceased (2002)
Thor Heyerdahl (October 6, 1914 Larvik, Norway - April 18, 2002 Colla Micheri, Italy) was a Norwegian ethnographer and adventurer with a scientific...
Jason Lewis

Jason Lewis

male
Jason Lewis, born 1967 in Catterick UK, is a self-powered circumnavigator. He set off from Greenwich, London in July, 1994 to travel round the...
Ranulph Fiennes

Ranulph Fiennes

male, 65 years old
Born in England in 1944 and brought up in Africa, Ranulph Fiennes followed his father's path into the Scots Greys before joining the elite SAS...
Christopher McCandless

Christopher McCandless

male, deceased (1992)
Christopher J. McCandless was an American wanderer who died near Denali National Park after hiking alone into the Alaskan wilderness with little...
Richard Francis Burton

Richard Francis Burton

male, deceased (1890)
Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton KCMG FRGS (March 19, 1821 - October 20, 1890) was a British explorer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist,...
David Thompson

David Thompson

male, deceased (1857)
David Thompson (April 30, 1770 - February 10, 1857), was an English-Canadian fur trader, surveyor, and map-maker, known to some native peoples as...