This brave little boy grew up to be . . .
Kathy Pinna Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon!
Harriett Chalmers Adams, 1920
Kathy Pinna She explored South America, Asia, and the South Pacific and wrote about it in National Geographic.
Amelia Earhart
Daniel Pinna When women weren't considered fit to pilot a plane, she challenged the idea in a big way.
And then came Sally Ride
Daniel Pinna Who flew into outer space!
Edward Wilson, Antarctica
AncientFaces He took part as a physician, natural historian, and artist in 2 British expeditions to Antarctica. He died on the 2nd expedition.
Howard Carter
Daniel Pinna He discovered Tutankhamun's tomb.
George Wallace Melville in 1910
AncientFaces One of only 13 survivors of an expedition to find a quick way to the North Pole.
South Pole explorers, 1912
AncientFaces Collecting penguin eggs
AncientFaces British Antarctic Expedition, 1911.
Donald MacMillan, 1922
AncientFaces He made over 30 expeditions to the Arctic.
Oscar Iden-Zeller, 1905
AncientFaces The first white man to cross the Tschaun Mountains in Siberia.
Frederick Cook, 1917
AncientFaces Physician and explorer, he claimed that he reached the North Pole a year before the accepted claim of Admiral Peary.
Matthew Henson,1910
Kathy Pinna A member of the Peary expedition, this man had quite a life. Orphaned as a young boy, he went to sea at age 12, rising from a cabin boy to a navigator.
Amazon explorer in a suit
AncientFaces In the early 20th century, the Amazon was a mysterious place. Large portions of it still are.
Rollin Fountain, 1940's
Henry Fountain Those diving suits were cumbersome!
Jacques Cousteau
Kathy Pinna About 40 years later - what a difference and how much more of the ocean could be seen.
Frits Vilhelm Holm,1915
AncientFaces Known as an adventurer, he sounds more like a high end thief. He set out to obtain the Nestorian Stele from China. The local authorities found out about the plot and foiled it but that didn't deter him. He had a copy made . . .
The Lost Adams Digging
Kathy Pinna Many over the past 150 yrs have looked for a lost goldmine in the Southwest of the U.S. All based on a man named "Adams" who had a gold nugget "the size of a hen's egg" that he said he had found in a mine in the desert. They're still looking!
