Members' Dinner - Greg Deyermenjian FN'88 - "Quest for Paititi" - Thursday, 5/17/12
Gregory Deyermenjian FN’88, has organized and led 16 expeditions into the mountains and jungles of southeast Peru, investigating the legend of a lost Incan realm, that of "Paititi." Most recently, in 2004 and 2006, his team identified and documented the furthest Incan remains known to lie directly to the north of Cusco.
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“To the Arctic” with Florian Schulz - 5/21/2012
Florian Schulz is a professional nature and wildlife photographer whose images have been the subject of exhibits at venues across the nation including the Field Museum in Chicago and the Burke Museum in Seattle. He is a frequent lecturer on photography and conservation in both North America and Europe. Schulz is the youngest founding member of the International League of Conservation Photographers, an organization committed to the use of the photographic arts to inspire viewers and save wilderness. He is the photographer for the book To the Arctic, companion publication for the new IMAX movie of the same name. For more on Schulz, visit www.visionsofthewild.com.
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EC Film Series: "Tsangpo Gorge" - Thursday, 5/24/12
The Explorers Club is pleased to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of an epic flag expedition and expedition film, "Into the Tsangpo Gorge," which was honored with a Lowell Thomas Award. In a 2002 Explorers Club Flag expedition, Scott Lindgren (MN 03) and his team achieved the first whitewater descent of the 19,700 ft.-deep Tsangpo Gorge in Tibet, known as the "Everest of Rivers."
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Lounge Night - 5/30/2012
Join fellow members to catch up, tell stories and enjoy the Club's lounge featuring a full bar and light hors d'oeuvres. Lounge Night is also "Radio Night." Join Jim Enterline in the ham radio station which will be manned all evening.
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Hunting for Planets Around Nearby Stars with Paul Butler - Thursday, 5/31/12
The Earthbound Planet Search Program is a consortium of telescopes in Hawaii, Chile, Australia, and California that are surveying the 2,000 nearest 2,000 sun-like stars in a search for planetary systems. Over the past 16 years this program has found hundreds of planets. Paul Butler has been a staff scientist at Carnegie’s Department of Terrestrial Magnetism since 1999 and has served as a staff astronomer at the Anglo-Australian Observatory in Sydney Australia and as a research fellow at UC Berkeley.
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THE LEDGE: A Fight for Survival Deep Inside a Glacier w/ Jim Davidson - 9/20/2012
After completing a difficult ice climb up Mount Rainier's north side, Jim Davidson and his partner, Mike Price, began their descent. While winding their way down the popular Emmons Glacier, a hidden snowbridge collapsed out from underneath them and dropped them both 80 feet into a dark crevasse. Jim survived. Mike did not. Jim was left stranded on a small ledge, deep inside the glacier. Injured, and with a shattered spirit over the loss of his friend, Jim struggled to find a way up the overhanging ice walls of the icy tomb. Come experience this chilling epic of a lone climber fighting to survive deep inside a glacier.
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Members Dinner - Jon Turk - 10/17/2012
Jon Turk’s presentation starts with snippets of journeys and reminisces from the crocodile infested jungles of the Solomon Islands to the Polar North, where he visited a Siberian shaman on five separate expeditions. The main body of his talk chronicles the first circumnavigation of Ellesmere Island which Jon completed with Erik Boomer in 2011. The two modern adventurers visit the long abandoned campsites of earlier giants of the heroic age of exploration, such as Peary and Greely. The polar spirit wolf, the crocodile conjurer of the Solomons, Moolynaut the Koryak healer, and nameless ice age mammoth hunters all become guides and companions in this passage across forbidding ice and remote landscapes.
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About the Club
Founded in New York City in 1904, The Explorers Club promotes the scientific exploration of land, sea, air, and space by supporting research and education in the physical, natural and biological sciences. The Club's members have been responsible for an illustrious series of famous firsts: First to the North Pole, first to the South Pole, first to the summit of Mount Everest, first to the deepest point in the ocean, first to the surface of the moon—all accomplished by our members.
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Capital Campaigns
Adopt a Window Campaign
The Explorers Club Headquarters boasts 114 stained glass windows. They embody a stunning range of brilliantly colored panes, representing a number of heraldic shields, portraits and pastoral and classical scenes. These windows are in dire need of repair.
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The Lowell Thomas Building Capital Campaign Preserve a Brick Initiative
Each fifty dollars donated will help to preserve one brick from the Club's current facade. Your contributions both large and small are important in helping us restore the Explorers Club historic Lowell Thomas building brick by brick*.
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Donating Appreciated Stock
The Explorers Club is pleased to accept gifts of publicly traded appreciated stock. If you own stocks, bonds or mutual funds that have appreciated in value and have owned them for at least one year, you have an opportunity to realize tax savings by making an outright gift of stock.
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Please participate: Explorers Club Future Tech Survey
Ever felt encumbered by the amount of gear you feel you need to bring into the field? Wish you had an affordable, lightweight way to collect and transmit data or charge electronics when you’re far from civilization?
The 2012 Explorers Club Future Tech Survey is the club’s first effort to get a better understanding of what technology issues our members are experiencing in the field, and what our most important technology needs are regarding field exploration, communications and data processing.
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The 2012 Lowell Thomas Awards : Call for Award Nominations
The 2012 Lowell Thomas Awards
Mindfulness: the Ultimate Tool in Exploration
New York, New York
October 13, 2012
Exploration demands not only physical endurance, extensive training, and a comprehensive toolkit but also a mental capacity to seamlessly enter environments vastly different from our own, be they natural, cultural, or psychological, to accomplish our goals.
Successful exploration requires keen awareness beforehand of the needs of the expedition and the tools of survival. In the field, mindfulness of the surrounding environment, both physical and cultural, the team dynamics, and one’s own thoughts, body, emotions and even spirit, is required.
James Cameron returns from historic deep sea dive
Director and deep sea explorer James Cameron, center, took the Explorers Club flag on his recent record-breaking solo trip. His ocean submersible had reached a depth 35,756 feet below the surface. The flag was retired. The West Coast Explorers Club Annual Dinner was held on the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic at Bowers Museum in Santa Ana.
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- RT @AntarcticaNews: Last Sunset in Antarctica Kicks Off Winter Season - Our Amazing Planet http://t.co/353Cfwm1
- RT @mjane_h: Beautifully done animation of explorers' journey to Challenger Deep in Pacific Ocean's Mariana Trench http://t.co/BTvndOMF
- Kuwait in the memoirs of an American Adventurer http://t.co/i4Br66O4
- Adventurer's Pacific row 'going well' http://t.co/Ze4AP1Js
- RT @nytimesscience: Scientist at Work Blog: How to Uncover Underwater Artifacts http://t.co/QphrAKeL
