It took him 58 days to get from the icy Hercules Inlet Bay to the South Pole. Waligóra skied alone and pulled everythi...
On May 26th Mateusz Wrazidlo (FI'22) embarked on an expedition to La Gran Sabana and Mount Roraima in Venezuela. The ex...
In August 2023, the Santi Odnaleźć Orła (to Locate “the Eagle”) team, including four TEC members - Tomasz Stachura FI’13...
On June 24, 2023, at 4:00 pm, the 9th edition of the Benedict Pole Awards took place at the Kazimierzowski Palace in War...
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About Us
THE EXPLORERS CLUB was founded in New York in 1904. Its purpose is to advocate and popularize the exploration of the Earth, the deep sea, outer space and concern for the preservation of the world's natural and cultural heritage.
The Club has more than 3,000 members from some 60 countries. It has 26 Branches on five continents. The headquarters of the Headquarters is located in New York in Manhattan. It is not possible to join the Club, you have to be selected by the Board of Directors from among invited and recommended candidates. The annual convention of The Explorers Club is held in March at Headquarters with a gala dinner at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel.
Club members were or are: The first men on the poles - Roald Amundsen and Robert Peary; on the moon - Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin; chimpanzee explorer Jane Goodall and gorilla explorer Diane Fossey; the leader of the victorious expedition to Mount Everest - Lord John Hunt and the first conqueror of that peak - Sir Edmund Hillary; sailor, archaeologist Thor Heyerdahl and ocean archaeologist Robert Ballard, who found the wreck of the "Titanic." Don Walsh and Jacques Piccard - the first people to reach the deepest part of our planet, the bottom of the Mariana Trench in the bathyscaphe "Trieste," as well as film director and oceanographer James Cameron, who did it 52 years later alone in the bathyscaphe "Deepsea Challenger"; National Geographic president Gilbert M. Grosvenor and others.
Benedict the Pole Award
The Benedict Pole Prize has been awarded annually since 2015, usually to two people (this year exceptionally to three), a Pole and a foreigner, for outstanding exploration and research achievements on the ground, in the sea, in the air, and space. The patron of the award is a Franciscan monk, Benedict Pole, who, together with his Italian confrere Giovanni da Pian del Carpine who, from 1245 to 1247, carried out an envoy mission to the Mongol Khan, who received them in the then capital of the Mongol Empire, Karakorum.
Upon their return from this more than a two-year expedition, during which they traveled some 20,000 kilometers on horseback, the Emissaries gave the Pope and European courts the first detailed description of Asia, 50 years before Marco Polo's famous work was written.
Club members
The data in the following biographies of club members are written in Polish and may be partially out of date. Please visit the current list of members >>
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