Epic Expeditions

Nellie Bly Round the world in 72 days   Captain Robert Falcon Scott Race to the Pole: Terra Nova expedition   Roald Amundsen Race to the Pole: Norwegian expedition   Lieutenant Colonel Percy Fawcett Search for the lost city of ‘Z’   Eva Dickson First woman to cross the Sahara by car   Clärenore Stinnes First circumnavigation of the globe by production car   Amelia Earhart First woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean   Thor Heyerdahl Kon-Tiki expedition   Jacques Cousteau First underwater archaeology operation   Sir Edmund Hillary 84 Everest first ascent   Tim Slessor London to Singapore by Land Rover   Sir Robin Knox-Johnston First solo-sailed circumnavigation of the globe   Robyn Davidson Trek across the deserts of west Australia using camels   Sir Ranulph Fiennes Transglobe expedition   Reinhold Messner First ascent of Everest without supplemental oxygen   Jason Lewis First human-powered circumnavigation of the globe   Alastair Humphreys Cycle around the world   Rune Gjeldnes Longest solo ski journey   Ed Stafford Walking the Amazon   Sarah Outen London2London   Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg First round-the-world solar flight   Fedor Konyukhov Fastest round-the-world balloon flight   Olly Hicks and George Bullard Greenland to Scotland by kayak   Apa Sherpa Twenty-one Everest ascents   Laura Bingham First team to locate the source of and navigate the Essequibo River, Guyana