1.SIR RANULPH FIENNES
In 1979, Sir Ranulph Fiennes with teammate Oliver Shepard and Charlie Burton as the first man to circumnavigate the globe through both poles. Daunting journey as far as 110,000 miles or about 200,000 miles to get to the place with the most extreme conditions.
Called extreme as in 'normal' temperatures in polar regions it reached -50 ° C (minus fifty degrees Celsius. Just for comparison, the average temperature in Indonesia is 30 oC. Course you still remember the basic physics that water freezes at a temperature 0 oC., however, was not the worst. Due to a storm event that is usually accompanied by strong winds, the temperature at the poles could drop to-84o C or more.
In 1984, he was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records.persimpangan Antarctica and discovered the lost city of Ubar in Oman, which had been buried in sand for nearly 2,000 years.
on 20 May 2009, at age 65 years he successfully reached the top of Everest and listed himself as the oldest person to successfully reach the top of Mount Everest.
2.MIKE HORN
In 1999, South African adventurer Mike Horn modern set to circumnavigate the globe along the equator without the use of motor vehicles. Latitude Zero expedition that begins in Gabon, from the Horn who crossed the Atlantic Ocean in the eight-meter trimaran.
He traversed South America and Africa at the foot of the mountain bike. Since completing Latitude Zero expedition, Horn has reached the North Pole on foot and climbed two peaks of 8,000 meters. Currently he leads the Pangaea Expedition, four-year expedition around the world youth aimed at improving environmental protection and conservation of natural resources.
3.DR. BERTRAND PICCARD
Dr. Bertrand Piccard (born March 1, 1958, age 51 years) is a psychiatrist and balonis Swiss.Ia origin born in Lausanne, canton Vaud. His grandfather Auguste Piccard and his father, Jacques Piccard, known as balonis and inventor.
Growing up in a family of explorers balonis and seabed, Bertrand was also fascinated by flight. As a child, he was taken to the launch of several spacecraft from Cape Canaveral. He became a hang-glider pilot and have an interest in flying ultra-light aircraft, as well as record gas balloon printed by his grandfather.
He is a lecturer and supervisor at the Swiss Society for Medical Hypnosis.
Dated March 1, 1999 Piccard and Brian Jones took off with the balloon Breitling Orbiter 3 from Château d'Oex in Switzerland in sirkumnavigasi first non-stop balloon circumnavigation of the world.
They landed in Egypt after the flight as far as 45,755 miles for 19 days, 21 hours and 47 minutes. The success of this, he received awards including the Harmon Trophy, the FAI Gold Air Medal and Charles Green salver.
In 2004, he announced a project, bekerjasam with the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), for a solar-powered glider, long distance, and the seat of the named Solar Impulse. The project is dubbed as "the greatest human adventure".
Piccard plans made in 2007, and did a short test flight in 2008. He gained financial and technical support of several European firms, so it seems Solar Impulse is a European plane, not the Swiss, despite knowledge of the support provided by the EPFL.
The plan is to circumnavigate the world with some reserve pilots, flying above the clouds at noon and at low altitude at night at a time in 2011.
4.ED VIESTURS
Ed Viesturs, a high-altitude mountaineer, do not be afraid not to peak. In a first attempt to climb Mount Everest, he turned only about 300 feet short of the top, because the conditions are not ideal. Viesturs has a motto: "Getting to the top is optional, getting to the bottom is mandatory."
It is he who has a reputation as the most cautious climbers. However, he has saved his life more than once and did not prevent him from achieving that goal. In 2005, Viesturs became the first American man and a 14 from around the world to reach the peak of 8000 meters.
5.JOHN GODDARD
The true adventurer John Goddard; at age 15, he made a list of 127 adventure challenge and spend the rest of their lives checked one by one. Until now, that has been achieved Goddard 109 items from the original list plus more than 500 additional items were added him.
List the item as covering diverse as climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, ride an ostrich and appeared in Tarzan movies. In the process, he has been spending some civil world as a jet pilot.
Goddard feat excavated from covering the entire length of the Nile and the Congo, the return step-Marco Polo and Alexander the Great, dove the Great Barrier Reef, learned to fance, and witnessed a cremation ceremony in Bali.
6.TUDOR PARFITT
Dubbed "the real Indiana Jones," He started petualngannya in the 1980's when he met with members of the Lemba tribe, a tribe in southern Africa are believed to have descended to the Jewish people of ancient Israel. Lemba Parfitt says the story of "Ngoma" - wooden container used to store sacred objects.
Parfitt soon came to believe that the object may be lost Ark of the covenant. He started at the bottom of the Cave of Zedekiah of Jerusalem. To explain in Indiana Jones terms, the red line on the map left Jerusalem to Jordan, then to Yemen, which extends to Egypt, Ethiopia, and landed in Zimbabwe. His work is the subject of 2008 documentary, and a book.
7.BENEDICT ALLEN
Benedict Allen planned an expedition from the mouth of the Orinoco River in the Amazon, Allen developed a plan that he would do it all for future trips: Instead of relying on sponsor, he immersed himself in protecting the environment and indigenous communities in the hope that they would help him in his journey.
Allen finally did cross the Orinoco with the local community, but in the process he caught the two types of malaria, has been invaded by gold miners and had to eat their own dog to survive.
Allen is the author of seven adventure travelogues, and have some documentary about his journey. The first, The Raiders of the Lost Lake, following he traveled through the Peruvian jungles looking for "wild lake" home "super snake."
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