Innehållsförteckning för Summer 2021 från The Explorers Journal

As the world seeks to emerge from the hardships caused by a global pandemic, it seems to me we are also entering a new golden age of exploration. While the nitty-gritty work of explorers often remains looking at the fine detail of our world with ever-greater resolution, I cannot help but also be in awe of the extremes we are now able to explore with ever-greater ease, due to the exponential improvements in the technologies that support exploration. This year is the first year of the UN Decade of Ocean Science. The deepest seas have been unlocked by machines such as the DSV Limiting Factor, built by Club Medalist Victor Vescovo. Surveying the 80 percent of the previously inaccessible seas will be critical to understanding and protecting our fragile oceans.…

THE KARAKORAM BY COLIN PRIOR 160 PP • LONDON: MERRELL PUBLISHERS, 2021 • ISBN-10: 1858946875 • ISBN-13: 978-1858946870 • $70 • REVIEWED BY NICK SMITH Colin Prior is one of the best-known British landscape photographers, virtually unrivalled in his pursuit of his iconography of the great peaks of Scotland. But throughout his long career—one that started way before the days of digital—he has made regular expeditions to the vast, inhospitable, and largely inaccessible Karakoram mountain range in Pakistan. Although professional photographer first and mountaineer second, you need both skill sets in abundance to produce the apex photography that, from the first page to the last, is at the core of his latest, The Karakoram: Ice Mountains of Pakistan. Recalling Ansel Adams’s legendary images of Yosemite, Prior’s portfolio is nothing short…

Despite the lingering global challenges presented by the pandemic, 2021 seems to be shaping up to be quite a year for exploration as we venture back out into the world with a heightened sense of awareness and urgency, inspired by those able to turn dreams into reality. Nowhere is this more evident than in the two successful space launches in July, which herald a new age in private space exploration and adventure. In his special report, contributing editor Jim Clash, who caught up with Messrs. Branson and Bezos in the wake of their history-making flights, shares his views on the future of these endeavors. In his delightful recounting of the early nineteenth-century French expedition to Egypt to “collect” the Luxor Obelisk, which graces the Place de la Concorde, Egyptologist Bob…

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THE EXPLORERS CLUB 46 EAST 70TH STREET, NEW YORK, NY 10021 WWW.EXPLORERS.ORG | 212-628-8383 AFRICA Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka gladys@ctph.org ALASKA Mead Treadwell meadwell@alaska.net ATLANTA Steve Pigott jagter@msn.com AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND Todd Tai todd@mivision.com.au BHUTAN Matthew DeSantis matt@mybhutan.com CANADA George Kourounis chapterchair@explorersclub.ca CENTRAL & SOUTH AMERICA Acting Chair: Synnøve Marie Kvam Strømsvåg sstromsvag@explorers.org CHICAGO/GREAT LAKES Robert A. Shuchman, PhD shuchman@mtu.edu EAST & SOUTH ASIA Steven R. Schwankert steven@sinoscuba.com FLORIDA Joseph Dituri, PhD joe@gallantaquatic.com GEORGE ROGERS CLARK Cindy Irvin cirvin100@yahoo.com GREAT BRITAIN & IRELAND Mark Wood mark@markwoodexplorer.com Rory Golden, Vice Chair rgolden@eircom.net GREATER PIEDMONT James Borton asiareview@yahoo.com HAWAII Mark Blackburn mblackburn@aol.com HONG KONG Angélica Anglés aangles@explorershk.org NEW ENGLAND Gregory Deyermenjian paititi@alumni.clarku.edu NORTH PACIFIC ALASKA Joshua C. Lewis & Victoria M. Becwar-Lewis npac1@me.com NORTHERN CALIFORNIA Tom Dolan tdolan@outdoorstorms.com NORWAY Synnøve Marie Kvam Strømsvåg…

Cady Coleman beware of space junk SPACE JUNK HAS BEEN IN THE NEWS. IN MAY, A SMALL PIECE PUNCTURED THE CANADIAN ROBOTIC ARM AT THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION. THE SAME MONTH, A CHINESE ROCKET BOOSTER, SEVERAL STORIES TALL, BROKE UP UPON REENTRY INTO EARTH’S ATMOSPHERE, LUCKILY FALLING INTO THE INDIAN OCEAN. AT LAST COUNT, THERE WERE MORE THAN 500,000 PIECES OF DEBRIS BIGGER THAN ONE CENTIMETER CRUISING AT 28,000 KPH ABOVE EARTH. THAT AMOUNTS TO MORE THAN 8,000 METRIC TONS. BECAUSE OF DECAYING ORBITS, THE JUNK WILL EVENTUALLY RETURN TO EARTH—MOST, BUT NOT ALL, BURNING UP BEFORE HITTING THE PLANET. CADY COLEMAN, 60, AN ASTRONAUT WHO HAS BEEN TO SPACE THREE TIMES, TACKLED THE COMPLEX SUBJECT ON HER SPACE PODCAST, “MISSION: INTERPLANETARY.” WE RECENTLY SPOKE WITH HER ABOUT IT. JC:…

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