Stafford, E: Expeditions Unpacked

Introduction Nellie Bly 14 Round the world in 72 days Captain Robert Falcon Scott 20 Race to the Pole: Terra Nova expedition Roald Amundsen 30 Race to the Pole: Norwegian expedition Lieutenant Colonel Percy Fawcett 38 Search for the lost city of 'Z' Eva Dickson 46 First woman to cross the Sahara by car Clärenore Stinnes 52 First circumnavigation of the globe by production car Amelia Earhart 60 First woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean Thor Heyerdahl 68 Kon-Tiki expedition Jacques Cousteau 78 First underwater archaeology operation Sir Edmund Hillary 84 Everest first ascent Tim Slessor 94 London to Singapore by Land Rover Sir Robin Knox-Johnston 104 First solo-sailed circumnavigation of the globe Robyn Davidson 114 Trek across the deserts of west Australia using camels Sir Ranulph Fiennes 126 Transglobe expedition Reinhold Messner 136 First ascent of Everest without supplemental oxygen Jason Lewis 144 First human-powered circumnavigation of the globe Alastair Humphreys 154 Cycle around the world Rune Gjeldnes 162 Longest solo ski journey Ed Stafford 170 Walking the Amazon Sarah Outen 180 London2London Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg 190 First round-the-world solar flight Fedor Konyukhov 200 Fastest round-the-world balloon flight Olly Hicks and George Bullard 208 Greenland to Scotland by kayak Apa Sherpa 218 Twenty-one Everest ascents Laura Bingham 224 First team to locate the source of and navigate the Essequibo River, Guyana Index 234 Picture credits 238

Ed Stafford is the Guinness World Record-holding first person to walk the Amazon River. Sir Ranulph Fiennes described his expedition as being "truly extraordinary… in the top league of expeditions past and present." A former British Army captain, Ed filmed and blogged his deadly journey and engaged followers all over the world for almost two and a half years. His footage was made into a Discovery Channel documentary and was sold to over 100 countries and he authored the best-selling book, 'Walking the Amazon'. Ed has gone on to film seven survival series and is now an established face of Discovery Channel and his seventh series Ed Stafford: First Man Out aired in late 2018 globally.