adventurer
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We talk about how he crossed the frozen Bering Strait in 2006 with French adventurer Dimitri Kieffer and his 186-mile swim across the Caspian Sea.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
The British adventurer makes her acrobatic moves against a background of realistic graphics, complete with her trademark sarcastic quips.
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
In 1979, she founded the Wulff School of Fly Fishing with her husband, Lee Wulff, an adventurer who died in a plane crash in 1991.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026
An adventurer until the end, Whittaker died Tuesday at his home in Port Townsend, Wash., his son Leif confirmed to the New York Times.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2026
It wasn’t like he was an adventurer like his grandfather—or even his father, for that matter.
From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley
Even so, sonic adventurers, beginning with Leopold Stokowski in the 1930s, experimented with amplification in an obsessive, seemingly quixotic effort to locate a mythical sonic grail on the Cahuenga Pass.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2026
Nepal is home to eight of the world's 10 highest peaks and welcomes hundreds of adventurers each spring.
From Barron's ● May 22, 2026
Figures like Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar and Napoleon were adventurers, and while perhaps not personally admirable, they changed history and changed it irrevocably:
From Salon ● Mar. 28, 2026
LONDON—The band of adventurers call it “Operation Certain Death.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 19, 2026
The first European adventurers in the Western Hemisphere did not make careful population counts, but they repeatedly described indigenous America as a crowded, jostling place—“a beehive of people,” as Las Casas put it in 1542.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
