Exploring Legends Interview w/ Adventure Author/Marine Archaeologist Clive Cussler - 07/09/2013

Adventure novelist and marine archaeologist Clive Cussler FN’78 is founder of the National Underwater and Marine Agency (NUMA). During his career, Cussler has written more than 50 books, many featuring protagonist Dirk Pitt, which have landed him on the New York Times bestseller list over a dozen times. "Sahara" and "Raise the Titanic" were both made into movies. Just five days short of his 82nd birthday, Cussler will share with interviewer Jim Clash tales of finding sunken shipwrecks, touring the world as a famous novelist and working in the advertising industry during the hey-day "Mad Men" period.

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Exploring Legends with Explorers Grand Slam Record-Holder Vanessa O'Brien - 09/09/13

Vanessa O'Brien holds the women's record (just over 11 months) for the "Explorers Grand Slam" - a ski to the North and South Poles, plus climbs of the Seven Summits (highest peaks on each continent): Elbrus (Europe); Kilimanjaro (Africa); Kosciuzko (Australia); Everest (Asia); McKinley (North America); Aconcagua (South America); Vinson (Antarctica). She even threw in Carstenz Pyramid (Oceania), if one considers that the seventh continent instead of Australia. O'Brien, a former banker, will talk about this and more with interviewer Jim Clash, then answer audience questions at the end.

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NYC - Lecture Series w/ Jeff Botz - 09/16/2013

Portrait of Everest is the photographic project of Jeff Botz, which is the first comprehensive photographic survey of the world’s tallest mountain and the surrounding area. His photographic style and techniques are unique to the area around Everest, using the same equipment and techniques practiced and taught by master American photographer Ansel Adams.

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NYC - Member's Dinner w/ Ted Vaill - 09/17/2013

Explorer and Mountaineer Ted Vaill of Malibu, California presents his award-winning film, over 20 years in the making, 'Finding Shangri-La". This film debuted at the Cannes Film Festival in 2007, and recently was shown at the ITN International Film Festival in New York City, where Ted was named Best Director, Documentary Film, for his work.

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NYC - Lecture Series w/ Daryl Hawk - 10/07/13

This past April international documentary photographer Daryl Hawk MN'98 embarked alone on his most recent expedition to the remote Northwest Frontier of Argentina. His route covered over 3000 miles across the high Andean altiplano plateau and over the spectacular 18,000 foot plus Andean mountain range where Argentina and Chile meet. The native people survive in one of the most remote, high altitude, bewitching landscapes on Earth. Mr. Hawk will share his discoveries, stories, and important lessons from the nonstop adventures he experienced day to day. He will also discuss his style, philosophy, and various techniques he uses when photographing subject matter.

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Members' Dinner w/ Dr. Luke Hunter - 10/17/13

In this presentation, Panthera’s President Luke Hunter will focus on solutions that address the conservation challenges facing the leopard; solutions ranging from how Panthera uses rigorous science to understand and control the worst excesses of trophy hunting, to cooperating with followers of the ‘Shembe’ religion in southern Africa to address their exploding - and unsustainable - practice of wearing leopard skin capes. Saving the leopard requires a combination of ingenious science, negotiating out-dated conservation policies, and working with very disparate and controversial stakeholder communities - a unique challenge for a unique cat.

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Exploring Legends Interview with "Meteorite Man" Geoff Notkin - 10/21/2013

Geoffrey Notkin MN'10 is a well-known meteorite expert and co-star of the critically acclaimed Discovery Science Channel TV show "Meteorite Men." Notkin will share with interviewer Jim Clash FR'99 tales of hunting space rocks while filming in such diverse locales as Chile's Atacama Desert, the Swedish arctic, Poland, Russia, Australia and the famous 48,000-year-old Odessa Crater in Texas. Following the interview, Clash will open the floor to audience questions. Limited quantities of Notkin's latest book "Rock Star: Adventures of a Meteorite Man" (Stanegate Press, 2012) will also be for sale.

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NYC - Lecture Series w/ Jim Nowak - 10/28/2013

Jim Nowak works on building community capacity in the most remote villages of eastern Nepal, so these villages can be in charge of their own development destiny. In the last 3 years we have built 13 schools, over 900 toilets, formed 85 Parent Teachers Associations, dozens of clean drinking water systems, one that was just completed was over 8 Kilometer’s long serving 600 people. In 2011 the dZi Foundation will be serving over 21,000 people in our target area.

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NYC - Lecture Series w/ Tim Gallagher - 11/04/2013

Best known for being one of the rediscovers of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, which scientists had thought to be extinct since the 1940s, Tim Gallagher is on the trail again—this time in pursuit of the mighty Imperial Woodpecker, the largest of its clan that ever lived, and also the Ivory-bill’s closest relative. The problem is, the bird has not had a confirmed sighting since the 1950s, and the only place it has ever existed is the high country of Mexico’s rugged Sierra Madre Occidental—epicenter of the country’s drug trade and violence. Tim shares the adventures he had on five expeditions in search of this enigmatic ghost bird.

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NYC - Member's Dinner w/ John R. Lawrence and Susan Ross Grimaldi - 11/07/2013

In Search of Traditional Shamans in the Eastern and Western Taigas of the Far North of Mongolia EC Flag Expedition #74, July 2011; EC Flag Expedition #186, June 25th – August 1st, 2012
“Shamans of the Reindeer Herders of the Mongolian Taiga” Video and Presentation filmed in the remote, northern region of the Mongolian Sayan mountains by explorers and documentary filmmakers John R. Lawrence, Jr., PhD, FN ’10, and Susan Ross Grimaldi, M.Ed., FN ‘11

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News / Blogs

Explorers Featured in New Canaan Advertiser

Coming off the recent screening of his film Visions of Mustang, Scott Hamilton MED’82 and fellow explorer Jeff Blumenfeld FN’89 have had their efforts in Nepal featured in the New Canaan Advertiser. In a piece titled “The Gift of Sight: Residents help Nepalis care for their eyes,” author Greg Reilly Jr. outlines Hamilton and Blumenfeld’s trip to remote villages in Nepal, and ongoing efforts to both medically treat cataracts and prevent them with proper education.

Click Here to download a PDF of the article

Solar Impulse Lands In St. Louis

A month after its departure from San Francisco, Solar Impulse on Tuesday landed in St. Louis, marking the fourth stop on its six-stop flight across the U.S. The unique solar-powered airplane previously landed in Phoenix and Dallas, and plans to stop next in Washington, D.C., and New York. The latest leg of the trip, with Bertrand Piccard FI’00 at the controls, lasted 21 hours and 21 minutes and covered 562 nautical miles. The advance crew for the first time used an inflatable hangar that was designed for the project’s planned 2015 round-the-world flight, after the planned hangar space in St. Louis was damaged by storms over the weekend.

Club Fellow featured in The Independent

In their review of the online game “GeoGuessr,” UK news outlet The Independent featured commentary from our own Gaelin Rosenwaks FR’06. She provided insight on the power of observation for successful navigation and geolocation, while also setting a high mark for other players to shoot for.

Click Here to see the article, “Where in the world am I? The addictive mapping game that is GeoGuessr” by Will Coldwell on Independent.co.uk

Founded in New York City in 1904, The Explorers Club promotes the scientific exploration of land, sea, air, and space by supporting research and education in the physical, natural and biological sciences. The Club’s members have been responsible for an illustrious series of famous firsts: First to the North Pole, first to the South Pole, first to the summit of Mount Everest, first to the deepest point in the ocean, first to the surface of the moon—all accomplished by our members.

Capital Campaigns

Dedicate a Floor Tile on the Terrace of The Lowell Thomas Building

Join the over 100 “Explorers Immortals” who have already donated and engrave your name or create a dedication in stone on the terrace at The Explorers Club Headquarters. Adorn our landmark outdoor space and help fund the Phase II renovations by making a tax deductible donation of $1,500 per dedicated tile to our Lowell Thomas Building Fund. If you make the donation before August 31st 2013 you will have your tile engraved and in place before the opening terrace celebration in September.

Adopt a Window Campaign

The Explorers Club Headquarters boasts 114 stained glass windows. They embody a stunning range of brilliantly colored panes, representing a number of heraldic shields, portraits and pastoral and classical scenes. These windows are in dire need of repair.

The Lowell Thomas Building Capital Campaign Preserve a Brick Initiative

Each fifty dollars donated will help to preserve one brick from the Club's current facade. Your contributions both large and small are important in helping us restore the Explorers Club historic Lowell Thomas building brick by brick*.