adventurer

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The result is an often exhilarating, often disturbing and always poignant tale of an artist and adventurer who lived to challenge the limits of what humans could do.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2026

TV adventurer Bear Grylls is starring in a new BBC reality series set in the Welsh wilderness.

From BBC • Feb. 17, 2026

I once asked James Cameron, the director and adventurer, why we should travel to Mars and such places.

From Slate • Dec. 9, 2025

The scheme was thought up by adventurer and financier William Paterson.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 30, 2025

Here the adventurer and king sat down; then carefully Penelope began: “Friend, let me ask you first of all: who are you, where do you come from, of what nation and parents were you born?”

From "The Odyssey" by Homer