American explorer Richard Byrd and three companions made the
first flight over the South Pole, flying from their base on the Ross
Ice Shelf to the pole and back in 18 hours and 41 minutes.
Richard Evelyn Byrd Jr.
(October 25, 1888 – March 11, 1957)
Photographer and filmmaker Jimmy Chin.
A National Geographic expedition to Mount Everest has found
remains believed to be of a 22-year-old renowned British climber
who vanished on a historic ascent in 1924.
The remains included a foot inside the mountaineer’s boot, his
name stitched into the sock.
The discovery was made by a small team including National
Geographic Explorer, photographer, and climber Jimmy Chin,
who directed the Oscar-winning documentary "Free Solo."
The sock, with Irvine’s name, was found along with a boot
and a foot, emerging from the ice of the Central Rongbuk
Glacier.
Oxford student Andrew “Sandy” Irvine.
In the last photo taken of the mountaineers, George Mallory
(left) and Sandy Irvine prepare to leave the North Col of
Everest in June 1924.
CAMILLE BOHANNON
Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (“the Boss”) is 74 years
old today. Bruce Springsteen is a rock singer, songwriter, and
guitarist.
He has released 21 studio albums during a career spanning six
decades, most of which feature his backing band, the E Street
Band. Springsteen is a pioneer of heartland rock.
Deep Sea Vision believes they may have come across Amelia Earhart’s wrecked plane in the Pacific Ocean.
(FOX NEWS) – A South Carolina-based ocean exploration
company says it may have found the airplane that Amelia
Earhart flew on her ill-fated 1937 expedition.
Deep Sea Vision CEO Tony Romeo, a former Air Force
intelligence officer, believes that the airplane-shaped
object that his company captured in a sonar image is
Earhart’s Lockheed 10-E Electra.
Earhart was trying to become the first woman to successfully
complete a circumnavigational flight of the globe when she
disappeared on July 2, 1937. She was last seen in Papua New
Guinea and disappeared near Howland Island in the Pacific
Ocean.
The CEO of Deep Sea Vision says he plans to return to get clearer pictures of the unknown object. (Deep Sea Vision)
After a two-month ordeal, the expedition of British explorer
Robert Falcon Scott arrived at the South Pole only to find
that Roald Amundsen, the Norwegian explorer, had preceded
them by just over a month. Disappointed, the exhausted
explorers prepared for a long and difficult journey back to
their base camp.
Weather on the return journey was exceptionally bad, two
members perished and Scott and the other two survivors
were trapped in their tent by a storm only 11 miles from
their base camp. Scott wrote a final entry in his diary in
late March. A search party discovered their frozen bodies
eight months later. In his final journal entry, Scott wrote,
"We shall stick it out to the end, but we are getting weaker,
of course, and the end cannot be far. It seems a pity, but
I do not think I can write more…For God’s sake look after
our people."
Edward Adrian Wilson, Robert Falcon Scott, Lawrence
Oates, Henry Robertson Bowers and Edgar Evans at
the South Pole.
