FREDERICK LAW OLMSTEAD: THE ACCIDENTAL RENAISSANCE MAN

New York, NY (November 5, 2012) - Justin Martin, the author of Genius Place: The Life of Frederick Law Olmstead, will detail the life of this remarkable man who is best remembered as the visionary designer of Central Park. As a journalist, Olmstead worked for the New York Times at its earliest incarnation, and traveled through the South to chronicle slavery and plantation life. His close observation of the institution of slavery turned him into a fiery abolitionist aiding the free-soilers during the Bloody Kansas struggles.

Olmstead played a key role in the preservation of Niagara Falls, Yosemite and other wild places, as well as leading a medical unit that served as the forerunner of the Red Cross. He settled into landscape architecture in his mid-40's, and his masterful designs include Prospect Park, The U.S. Capitol Grounds, Stanford University's Campus, and the Biltmore Estate.

November 5th, Monday
Check-In and Open Bar at 6pm, 7pm Start
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 UNSUNG HEROES OF MOUNTAINEERING

 

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New York, NY (June 11, 2012) -  The Explorers Club Lecture Series season will a conclude with a presentation from Amanda Padoan who will discuss the culture and conflicts of mountaineering's unsung heroes - the high altitude porters of the Himalaya. A successful summit is morally ambiguous to the Sherpas who believe deities reside on the peaks and consider mountaineering an act of trespass, even blasphemy. Based on interviews in rare and dying languages such as Ajak Bhote, Shar-Khumbu tangney and Rolwaling Sherpi tamgney, Amanda reveals a culture in which climbing is a lethal but lucrative career for young men, and a terrible sin against the mountain.

 

June 11th, Monday
Check-In and Open Bar at 6pm, 7pm Start
Reservation Notes: Free for Explorers Club members; $20 for members of the public; $5 for students with a valid academic ID. Reservations are suggested on a first-come first-served basis. Please call 212.628.8383, or send your email to reservations@explorers.org.

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 Wind, Pyramids and Obelisks: Using Winds to Make the Megaliths of Egyptian Antiquity

New York, NY (June 4, 2012) - Famed National Geographic expedition leader and innovator, Dr. Maureen Clemmons, developed a theory that the ancient Egyptians, being sailors, used the wind to erect their monuments, and tested this theory on a small scale using a 400-lb. obelisk and some store-bought kites. Despite the resounding success of this Goddard-esque field work and mathematical models, skeptics abounded and could not get Egyptologists to even evaluate the idea. She defied these criticisms by collaborating with California Institute of Technology's aeronautics professor, Dr. Morteza Gharib, in constructing a 3.4-ton obelisk that was lifted off the ground with two men in 25 seconds. Her story is one of perseverance in the face of skepticism - the importance of innovative thought and its translation into reality using all available resources.

June 4th, Monday
Check-In and Open Bar at 6pm, 7pm Start
Reservation Notes: Free for Explorers Club members; $20 for members of the public; $5 for students with a valid academic ID. Reservations are suggested on a first-come first-served basis. Please call 212.628.8383, or send your email to reservations@explorers.org.

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EXPLORERS CLUB LECTURE SERIES: "To the Arctic"



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New York, NY (May 21, 2012) - Professional nature and wildlife photographer Florian Schulz's presentation will be of an ecosystem of surprising richness, showcasing a pageant of wildlife - oddly captivating shapes of muskoxen, waves of migrating caribou, and some of the most extraordinary images ever captured of a mother polar bear and her cubs. Schulz's imagery, accompanied by his personal fieldwork series, explore the remarkable diversity of life in the arctic.



May 21st, Monday
Check-In and Open Bar at 6pm, 7pm Start
Reservation Notes: Free for Explorers Club members; $20 for members of the public; $5 for students with a valid academic ID. Reservations are suggested on a first-come first-served basis. Please call 212.628.8383, or send your email to reservations@explorers.org.

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EXPLORERS CLUB LECTURE SERIES: "Quest for Yosemite in the Sixties"

New York, NY (May 14, 2012) - The sheer granite walls of Yosemite Valley have drawn many types of visitors over the decades. But they particularly galvanized a dedicated group of climbers, who saw the nearly hold-less, glacier-polished faces as the purest form of challenge. The late 1950s ushered a new era of rock climbing later known as the Golden Age of Yosemite climbing. During this period, the climbers of the sixties developed the techniques, tools and philosophies that made Yosemite the most important and influential rock climbing arena in the world. They dropped out of the mainstream of work and society and took up residence in Camp 4, perfecting the skills and developing a unique social scene. This austere, boulder-strewn campground became the epicenter of the climbing world. In between spectacular feats carried out on the walls, it served both as a launching pad for further adventures and refuge from them. Join Glen Denny as he takes you on a climbing and cultural journey.

 

May 14th, Monday
Check-In and Open Bar at 6pm, 7pm Start
Reservation Notes: Free for Explorers Club members; $20 for members of the public; $5 for students with a valid academic ID. Reservations are suggested on a first-come first-served basis. Please call 212.628.8383, or send your email to reservations@explorers.org.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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EXPLORERS CLUB LECTURE SERIES: "To the Last Breath"

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New York, NY (May 7, 2012) -  This presentation from Francis Slakey will be about going to extremes, as well as his rigorous twelve year quest to complete what he called “the first global surf-n-turf.” Slakey will take us from the peaks of Mount Everest, Denali, and Puncak Jaya to the beaches of Bali, Morocco and Norway. As Slakey systematically conquers each milestone, unexpected encounters with danger and death forever changed his perspective – and his life.

 May 7th, Monday
Check-In and Open Bar at 6pm, 7pm Start
Reservation Notes: Free for Explorers Club members; $20 for members of the public; $5 for students with a valid academic ID. Reservations are suggested on a first-come first-served basis. Please call 212.628.8383, or send your email to reservations@explorers.org.

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EXPLORERS CLUB LECTURE SERIES: Laos and Myanmar

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New York, NY (April 30, 2012) - Frederick Selby's presentation will describe the principle Buddhist and other important sites of Myanmar and Laos, after receiving permission to trek north from Putao in Kachin Province (northeastern Myanmar). Selby, along with eight other individuals, hiked through thick tropical foliage and over hills to reach a beautiful and seldom dwelled isolated village occupied by the Lisu people. Selby will also discuss Myanmar and Laos’ recent changes - the countries' histories and their future, post formal diplomatic relations during U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's visit in December, 2011.


April 30th, Monday
Check-In and Open Bar at 6pm, 7pm Start
Reservation Notes: Free for Explorers Club members; $20 for members of the public; $5 for students with a valid academic ID. Reservations are suggested on a first-come first-served basis. Please call 212.628.8383, or send your email to reservations@explorers.org.











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EXPLORERS CLUB LECTURE SERIES: Unveiled Secrets of China's Taklamakan Desert

New York, NY (April 23, 2012) - Author Christoph Baumer's lecture involves the archaeological results from his winter 2009 expedition to the heart of China's Taklamakan Desert, where he discovered an Iron Age graveyard that indicate links to nomadic steppe cultures much further north, along with a Bronze Age necropolis that revealed a surprising fertility cult and a 4,000-year-old unknown archaeological horizon. The naturally mummified corpses he found bore clear Indo-European traits, and the sites witness the existence of "Silk and Jade Road" trade routes 2,000 to 4,000 years old. 

April 23rd, Monday
Check-In and Open Bar at 6pm, 7pm Start
Reservation Notes: Free for Explorers Club members; $20 for members of the public; $5 for students with a valid academic ID. Reservations are suggested on a first-come first-served basis. Please call 212.628.8383, or send your email to reservations@explorers.org.

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EXPLORERS CLUB LECTURE SERIES: Plastic Ocean with Captain Charles Moore

New York, NY (April 9, 2012) - Follow the inspirational story of an un-credentialed but committed "citizen-scientist," Capt. Charles Moore, who will unveil the grim unintended consequences of man’s unthinking love affair with plastics, describing the damaging "plastic footprint" left in its wake. On his routine homeward cruise from Hawaii to California in 1997, Capt. Moore kept spotting plastic scraps and fragments on the ocean surface, which astonishingly proved to outweigh the natural food base plankton by a ratio of 6:1. He learned that insidiously durable and potentially toxic plastics have crept into every corner of our lives, and tumbled by the millions of tons into the natural world where they do great harm to wildlife.

April 9th, Monday
Check-In and Open Bar at 6pm, 7pm Start
Reservation Notes: Free for Explorers Club members; $20 for members of the public; $5 for students with ID. Reservations are suggested on a first-come first-served basis. Please call 212.628.8383, or send your email to reservations@explorers.org. 

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EXPLORERS CLUB LECTURE SERIES WITH DEE BREGER: Taiga Burning Bright - A Centennial Expedition to Tunguska

New York, NY (April 2, 2012) - Join us with Dee Breger and her colleagues, The Holocene Impact Working Group, in commemorating the 100th anniversary of the mysterious fireball that exploded over the remote Stony Tunguska River in 1908 - the blast that charred and flattened millions of trees in a radiating pattern and brightened European nights for days afterward. But even with dozens of hypotheses - some real, some crackpot - its exact same nature has never been solved. This photo-based presentation details their hazardous adventure and shows some of the microscopic evidence for the most plausible explanation, a comet or asteroid that exploded in the atmosphere that may or may not have shot soft fragments into the taiga below.

April 2nd, Monday
Check-In and Open Bar at 6pm, 7pm Start
Reservation Notes: Free for Explorers Club members; $20 for members of the public; $5 for students with ID. Reservations are suggested on a first-come first-served basis. Please call 212.628.8383, or send your email to reservations@explorers.org.

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Explorers Club Lecture Series with Julian Smith: Crossing the Heart of Africa - An Odyssey of Love and Adventure

New York, NY (February 27, 2012) - Few people have heard of the British explorer Ewart Grogan. Yet in his day, Grogs was famous on both sides of the Atlantic for a unique and groundbreaking feat of exploration: in 1898 - 1900, he made the first trek the length of Africa, from Cape Town to Cairo, much of it through unmapped and hostile territory, to win the hand of the woman he loved.


In 2007, award winning travel and science writer Julian Smith (Smithsonian, National Geographic, Wired, Outside, LA Times) was the first person to retrace Grogan's route from South Africa to Sudan. In his presentation, he compares the modern reality - from cellphones and endnagered wildlife to the specters of AIDS and genocide - to the world Grogan saw with its hostile cannibals, lethal animals, near-constant sickness and the ongoing tragedy of colonialism.

February 27th, Monday
Check-In at 6pm, 7pm Start
Reservation Notes: Free for Explorers Club members; $20 for members of the public; $5 for students with ID. Reservations are suggested on a first-come first-served basis. Please call 212.628.8383, or send your email to reservations@explorers.org.

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Explorers Club Lecture Series with James Currie

New York, NY (February 13, 2012) - Birding Adventures TV creator James Currie describes a recent adventure in Colombia where his crew captured what may be an entirely new species of hummingbird on video. Initially identified as the long-lost Bogota Sunangel, this mysterious hummingbird has captivated the birding world. James will give us an update on DNA tests, and provide tips on hotspots where you can see the most interesting bird behavior.

February 13th, Monday
Check-In at 6pm, 7pm Start
Reservation Notes: Free for Explorers Club members; $20 for members of the public; $5 for students with ID. Reservations are suggested on a first-come first-served basis. Please call 212.628.8383, or send your email to reservations@explorers.org.

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Lecture Series with John Vincent Bellezza

New York, NY (January 9, 2012) - The Explorers Club launches the new year with a presentation from John Vincent Bellezza, the first foreigner to circumnavigate the Celestial Lake in Tibet, and the first non-Tibetan to reach all the geographic and ritual sources of the fabled four rivers (Indus, Brahmputra, Sutlej and Karnali) that arise in south western Tibet in 1999 - five and a half month long expedition. In this lecture, Bellezza will share his experiences in Zhang Zhung, the highest altitude civilization to have taken root in the ancient world 3,000 years ago. Its sophisticated Metal Age way of life displaced the last of the Stone Age on Tibet's high plateaus. With its extensive network of citadels and necropolises, Zhang Zhung held sway until the advent of Buddhism in the seventh century CE, forming the bedrock of many Tibetan customs and tradition practiced to this day.

January 9th, Monday
Check -In at 6pm, 7pm Start

Reservation Notes: Free for Explorers Club Members; $20 for members of the public; $5 for students with ID. Reservations are suggested on a first-come first-served basis. Please call 212.628.8383 send your email to reservations@explorers.org.

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