expedition
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The movie ends with a title card explaining how, after the 1953 expedition, Norgay never felt the need to summit Everest again.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
Similarly, an expedition in 2019 to investigate a photograph of what might have been landing gear protruding from the water near Nikumaroro also failed to find anything.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026
Egged on by demagogues, Thucydides narrates, Athens embarked on a war of choice—the Sicilian expedition, the disastrous failure of which contributed to Athens’s eventual defeat in the Peloponnesian War.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
"Finding Amelia Earhart's Electra aircraft would be the discovery of a lifetime," Richard Pettigrew, head of the ALI and the expedition lead, said.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
After Discovery came his “Furthest South” expedition in 1908.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
According to the Himalayan Database, which tracks expeditions in the region, last year there were 379 ascents by climbers with permits to Everest’s summit, compared with 57 in 1996.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
The expeditions explored seamounts near Isla del Coco and along Costa Rica's Pacific margin.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026
Friends and family describe Wolfe as a force of nature, often dressed in camouflage shorts and ready with stories of his travels, fishing expeditions and the objects surrounding him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
Bate went on to undertake expeditions across the Mediterranean, often travelling alone to remote caves in search of evidence of ancient life.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
Even before the calamitous outcome of the 1996 premonsoon climbing season, the proliferation of commercial expeditions over the past decade was a touchy issue.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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