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Our sixth cohort of Explorers Club 50 honorees represent the cutting edge of conservation, field science, and research. All across the globe, these explorers are tackling the hardest questions and challenges facing our world today. Learn more at 50.explorers.org
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World Oceans Week returns on June 1-5, 2026 🌊
For our tenth anniversary, we’re excited to host another week of cutting edge ocean science, conservation, art, and culture at Explorers Club HQ. Stay tuned for more information on speakers, special programs, and our new ambassadors
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Every explorer has a story to tell. What's yours? ⚡️
Enter your favorite expedition photos in our ECAD 2026: Epics of Exploration Photo Contest for a chance to win a ticket to the 122nd Explorers Club Annual Dinner – Odysseys. bit.ly/3MWk3k1
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This spring, explorers far and wide will set sail and make their journey home for ECAD: Odysseys ⚡️
ECAD returns on April 18, 2026 at the Glasshouse NYC
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It is with great sadness that we share news of the passing of Explorers Club Medalist Captain Jim Lovell. Captain Lovell was a beloved member of The Explorers Club for almost 60 years. Read President Richard Wiese's statement at explorers.org
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GLEX: Canada tickets are now live! The world’s greatest explorers descend on Ottawa, Canada – September 12-14. Joining @profbriancox + @louiseleakey at the Summit are 5 more top expedition storytellers. Reserve your spot today: explorers.org/glex-canada-ti…
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GLEX: Canada, in partnership with @RCGS_SGRC
On September 12-14, explorers from around the world will gather in Ottawa, Canada for the Global Exploration Summit for an exciting weekend of science on the frontlines.
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Actor @JoeManganiello will host the 121st Explorers Club Annual Dinner: Paradise Found 🌴
Read more at explorers.org/manganiello
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The dire wolf once again walks upon the earth 🐺
From the Arctic’s frozen tundra to labs across the country, @colossal has succeeded in the world’s first de-extinction. "It is the dawn of a new era of conservation and science!” - @RichardGarriott
explorers.org/colossal
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Iconic actor and philanthropist Richard Gere will Keynote the 121st Explorers Club Annual Dinner. Best known for his film career, Gere has consistently used his platform to champion human rights, environmental sustainability, and global compassion. explorers.org/gere
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We found paradise! 🔥❄️
We're proud to announce the grand prize winner of our Paradise Found Photo Contest, Ulla Lohmann. Ulla took the winning photograph while visiting Etna Volcano in Sicily.
To see the finalists and semi-finalists, visit explorers.org
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Please save the date for the 121st Explorers Club Annual Dinner – Paradise Found: Protecting Precious Places 🦎
April 26, 2025 in New York City
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@Hari_BudhaMagar is unstoppable!
One month ago, Hari, EC50 Class of 2024, became the first double above-knee amputee to summit Denali, the tallest mountain in North America. Hari set out to complete all 7 Summits, and has already summited Mount Everest.
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We think Bennett is absolute dino-mite! 🦖🧨 Bennett Slibeck received a 2024 Exodus Exploration Without Boundaries grant to explore the connections between dinosaur footprints and Indigenous petroglyphs. Learn more about the Exodus grant here explorers.org/grants/exodus-…
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Once again, the Philip Stephenson Exploration Advancement (SEA) Grantees are making a splash 💧 The S.E.A. grant supports research in the field of marine science and conservation. We can’t wait to SEA what these grantees do next! 🌊 Read about them here: explorers.org/grants/the-ste…
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The 2024 Fjallraven grantees are totally necks-level! 🦒 @mohahussein_ali is studying the Farmer-Giraffe Conflict in Kenya and Michael Monzon will investigate climate change's impact on fly biodiversity. Read more here! explorers.org/grants/fjallra…
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We’re kicking off our 2024 Grantee week with the 2024 Rolex Explorers Club Grantees!
The Explorers Club is proud to partner with @rolex to send extraordinary young explorers into the field. To learn more about our 2024 Rolex grantees, visit explorers.org/grants/rolex-e…
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#otd in 1969, Buzz Aldrin & Neil Armstrong took an Explorers Club flag on their moonwalk. Buzz & Neil's moonwalk is the most recent of our Famous Firsts – first to the North Pole, South Pole, top of Mount Everest, bottom of Mariana's Trench, and the Moon. Where will we go next?
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Congratulations to @Cescosauro and his collaborators for confirming the existence of a subsurface cave on the moon! 🌕🚀 Francesco and his team’s game changing discovery of the cave marks the first time that we’re able to look through the darkness of a cave on another planet.
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Sink your teeth into this! 🦈🤿
Thanks to a Stephenson Exploration Advancement Program grant, Deborah Santos de Azevedo and her team at @SharkStudies are diving deep into the impacts of ecotourism on sharks and their environment off the coast of Florida. Deborah’s team is hopeful to use this research to support shark conservation efforts 🌊
📸: Henry Bliss
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Searching for PATHFINDERS for the 2024 Lowell Thomas Awards! Inspired by the definition of a pathfinder as “one who discovers a new way”, we're seeking nominations that are pathfinders from outer to inner space, and the new pathways to knowledge about the wonders of planet Earth. Hosted by our Texas Chapter, LTAD will be November 1 – 3 in Austin. Submit nominations here! - explorers.org/the-lowell-tho…
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Applications now open: PONANT Science Expedition Grant
In collaboration with PONANT, TEC members and fellows have the opportunity to conduct their research while aboard a multi-week expedition voyage on Le Commandant Charcot.
explorers.org/grants/ponant-…
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Proud to announce the inaugural recipients of the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Explorers Club Visionary Awards!
🛰️Dante Lauretta
🐢Callie Veelenturf
❄️John Shears
#SchmidtVisionaryAwards #ExplorersClub #TheExplorersClub #ECAD #Grants #Exploration
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Applications now open: PONANT x The Explorers Club Speaker Series! We’re thrilled to again offer members and fellows the incredible opportunity to traverse new frontiers in search of discovery and a more sustainable future. Visit the link below to apply!
explorers.org/ponant-speaker…
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Since 1904, The Explorers Club has recognized explorers around the world with exploration's highest honors. The history of this club is written in the legacy of the giants we celebrate.
Congratulations to all of our 2024 ECAD Awardees!
📸: Peter Domorak
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Today is the day of the cosmic ballet - tonight we celebrate The Explorers Club 120th Annual Dinner. 💫🪐
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We are proud to announce the 2024 Global Exploration Summit - a week dedicated to the future of exploration. Come hike volcano tubes, go whale watching, and learn about what's next from those powering humanity to greater heights than ever.
🌏 Head to the link below to get your tickets today: bit.ly/4cXHf9Z
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Welcome to our 2024 Silent Auction - one of the most unique charity auctions in the entire galaxy 🌌
Featuring trips from all over the world, items picked up on expeditions, and things you simply can't find in stores - this auction is a reflection of The Explorers Club membership itself. Take a look, be inspired, and help us get a jump-start on our ECAD 2024 fundraising.
bit.ly/3xzVRwl
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Mission Control at Headquarters is polishing every last nut and bolt to launch a weekend full of cosmic connections and galactic cocktails🪐
T-minus 16 days until we lift off for the stars - and don’t forget to bring your interstellar dance moves 🕺 ✨
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We have just kicked off our inaugural day of exploration with @yachtclubmonaco, a curated program of the world’s greatest explorers back from the edges of ocean exploration.
Today we aim to shape the future of the high seas and stimulate investment in cutting-edge marine technologies.
Join us and watch live: bit.ly/3IMtope
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ICYMI: Tickets are now on sale for the New York Wild Film Festival, April 3rd through 7th. 🐘
Make sure to grab your tickets before they sell out: bit.ly/4c1vYoM
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Happy Leap Day to all our fans of Herpetology out there! 🐸
The beautiful painting here depicts a Glass Frog, belonging to the Centrolenidae family of Amphibians. These leaping mascots can be found in the rainforests of Central and South America, with particular affinities for the Amazonian habitats of Brazil, Venezuela, and Paraguay.
Glass frogs are unique for their transparent abdominal skin, which allows us to see their bones, internal organs like the heart, and even their eggs – hence the common name: Glass Frog.
We hope all our explorers take advantage of the extra day to leap into new adventures around the globe!
📸: Cibelle de Castro Pedroso
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Since 1914, The Explorers Club has recognized the world’s greatest explorers with exploration’s highest honors. Click here to meet our latest class of titans: bit.ly/4bBiiRh
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Roses are red, the earth is blue,
all we ever want is to explore it with you 🌏️ 🌹 💚
Happy Valentine's Day - from our nature-loving hearts to yours!
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From delicious Boba to sewing stations, indigenous art displays to dancing the night away - last week we rang in the Lunar New Year like never before.
Thanks to our friends over at Roots Studio for bridging our two communities - we can't wait for more collaborations to come!
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From June 15th to 19th we invite you to join the world’s leading explorers and scientists in Portugal for the Global Exploration Summit.
Save the date and stay tuned for travel details and booking information - coming soon!
Glexsummit.com
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Announcing The Explorers Club 50 Class of 2024; fifty people changing the world that the world needs to know about.
These 50 individuals are exploring, inspiring, and creating the future—the future of the planet, life upon it, and the boundless possibilities that await us all.
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Join The Explorers Club on Monday, February 5th to learn about the history of Black aviation and the heroes fighting for equality and inclusion in the skies.
Click here for tickets: bit.ly/3HFPs4w
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Oh to be on expedition floating in the Caribbean Sea, waving an Explorers Club Flag in the tropical Breeze ...
What wouldn't you trade to ditch your desk and be in the field right now 🤔
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This morning we woke up to snow at headquarters for the first time in two years. ❄️🎉🌨️
Even our snowmen wear Explorers Club buttons for such special occasions! ☃️
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100 days until this year's cosmic ballet - an unforgettable evening of otherworldly enchantment with The Explorers Club.
Tickets are selling out quickly, so head to the link below to grab yours before they are lightyears away 💫
bit.ly/48tl4WR
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Wishing our members around the globe a Happy Christmas and a warm holiday season! 🐻❄️🌲❄️
We hope you enjoy these festive, cozy snaps of Headquarters (before it was Headquarters) circa the 1920s! We can’t wait for everyone to join us back around the fireplace in 2024 ☃️🥂🧣❄️
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Wishing a little extra holiday cheer as all of our Explorers head into the penultimate weekend of 2024 🎄🎉🐻❄️
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With 74 years and a little luck, lost EC Flag #98 found its way back to our NYC Headquarters this past week. To celebrate its monumental homecoming, we headed down to Wall Street earlier today to open the New York Stock Exchange.
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In 1939, Admiral Richard Byrd flew Explorers Club Flag #98 on expedition in Antarctica to conduct foundational climate and geographical research.
After discovering more than 100,000 square miles of area, Byrd was unexpectedly and abruptly called away from the expedition to return to service in WWII, and Flag 98 was thought to have been lost at the South Pole ever since. Safe to say, we are over the moon to have it retired safely in our permanent archives.
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The Explorers Club Annual Dinner returns for the 120th edition of the best night on Earth, or anywhere else.
Join us for a cosmic ballet 🪐🩰🌠
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We all have our own personal “moon shots” we’d like to take in life, but as mission control will tell you, doing one big thing really means getting a thousand little things right along the way.
Join us on Monday, December 4th to hear from renowned NASA astronaut @Astro_Mike who will take us through his guide to achieving the impossible
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Calling all intrepid women explorers!
Join us tomorrow, Thursday, November 30th, at 7:00 PM for a networking and cocktail hour celebrating the amazing, trailblazing women of the Explorers Club!
Get tickets here: bit.ly/3N5nLVI
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146 days 2 hours 39 minutes and 13 seconds until the 2024 Explorers Club Annual Dinner … but who’s counting?
(We definitely are 🚀🌏🪐⏰)
Save the date for ECAD 2024 and stay tuned for the ticket launch during the first week of December!
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@_DavidBorish, an EC50 2023 honoree, pressing his #ExploreButton. Where does your #ExploreButton take you? 🌍✨ Share your dream destinations in the replies! 📍🚀
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@_DavidBorish, an EC50 2023 recipient, pressing his #ExploreButton
Where does your #ExploreButton take you? 🌍✨ Share your dream expedition destinations in the comments! 📍🚀
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It's here, it's there, our new book is now officially out and available everywhere!
Head to the link below to get your piece of Explorers Club History 🌎️ 🗺️ 📚️
bit.ly/47ow5rs
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To All Explorers Around The World,
I have the sad duty to announce the passing of Explorers Club Medalist Captain Don Walsh MED’61, who alongside Jacques Piccard was the first human to the bottom of the deepest point in the ocean, the 10,916 meter Challenger Deep.
The Challenger Deep expedition is part of the foundational bedrock of the story of The Explorers Club.
One of our five Famous Firsts - Don quite literally set the standard by which we measure ourselves as explorers.
First to the Poles, First to Everest, First to the Moon — when we walk on Mars, that accomplishment will be in no small part due to the runway laid by Don, and an indomitable generation of trailblazers like him who have made this Club what it is today."
Read President Richard Garriott's full obituary of Captain Don Walsh here: bit.ly/3QEOSb6
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Ever wondered what to get an explorer who seemingly has it all? As the holiday season quickly approaches, discover your next extraordinary gift at our online auction!
Click here to support our mission-critical activities around the world: bit.ly/47sSCmU
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We can hardly believe it, but there is only one week to go before you can finally hold our club's beloved history in your own two hands!
Get ready to embark on this thrilling adventure with us and pre-order your copy here: bit.ly/3FPqFKj
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At a time when so much about our planet is changing, the work of discovery and exploration has never been more urgent.
But what does the future of exploration look like amidst an age of technology, diversity, and uncertainty? 👇
bit.ly/3Svv78m
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Wishing a Creepy Crawly Halloween to all of our Explorers around the globe 🎃 🕸️ 🕷️
This friendly arachnid cozied up to Rolex Explorer Watch #1 on its most recent expedition with William Creech, MN'19 in the Mojave Desert with Flag No. 238.
As part of The Explorers Club Rolex Expedition Watch Program, William took a specially numbered Rolex chronometer on his journey to remap the historic "Old Traction Road" route.
This trade and navigation route hasn't been used since 1903, but, with the work from this expedition, William's mission is to bring the road up to modern compliance for use. In doing this, he hopes to inspire greater conservation and preservation practices in the region.
#ChrisCollardPhoto
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The Exploration Fund is one of the Club’s longest-standing grant programs, and it supports field research for those who are just beginning their research careers.
Do you know a young explorer who is up to the task?
Apply by this Saturday at 5pm EST👇
grants.explorers.org/prog/ex…
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On Mischief Night, when shadows dance, The Explorers Club extends a chance🌛
Under the moon's eerie, ghostly light, Join us for a haunted, chilling night 🎃🌃
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bit.ly/3FybkxK
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Yesterday, EC50 Honoree Bolortsetseg joined us to talk about fossil repatriation in Mongolia 🦕🇲🇳
Look who happened to be at Headquarters just in time to help unbox 80 million-year-old fossils...
Coincidence? We think not.
@joshuagates
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For the past 2 decades, EC50 honoree Dr. Bolortsetseg Minjin has been at the forefront of an awe-inspiring mission: repatriating over 70 pilfered dinosaur skeletons to her home country of Mongolia.
Join us next Monday to get a first-hand look at these stolen fossils 👇
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Dive headfirst into ocean exploration this November at Sea Stories; A day of scuba adventures, shipwreck mysteries, and the captivating wonders of life beneath the surface. An absolute must for ocean enthusiasts looking to connect and share their passion:
bit.ly/3S0ul3d
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Tune in to Climate Week tonight as we talk to CNN Chief Climate Correspondent @BillWeirCNN on how to tell difficult stories about climate change while inspiring collective action
piped.video/watch?v=NPCdIdFa…
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Yesterday, for the opening night of Climate Week, we hosted 10+ heads of state & and ministers to sign an international agreement for the use of climate science in the protection of the planet.
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Welcome to Climate Week - Join The Explorers Club's mission to confront the tough questions, explore visionary solutions, and celebrate the possibilities of a sustainable, resilient future for all.
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Between his role as the chair of The Explorers Club Bhutan Chapter and the Founder of @Mybhutan, Matthew DeSantis MI’16 has taken to fostering a new national pass time in the hills of the Himalayas - Baseball.
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