Virtual Exploration Society
Welcome to the Virtual Exploration Society. Go over
to the bar and get a root beer, then have a seat by the fire.
Listen while the older members recount exciting true stories of
explorers who have risked life and limb in the persuit of knowledge.
Paddle down the Amazon with Percy Fawcett. Drive a dogsled to
the North Pole with Peary and Henson. Go to a mysterious isolated
island with the Burden Expedition to capture a living dragon.
Risk an ancient Egyptian curse with Howard Carter as he opens
the Tomb of King Tut.
Flight of the Norge (Part1),
(Part 2) - It was a feat that
was astounding at the time, but now lost in the dusty pages of
history. In May of 1926 a group of sixteen fearless adventurers
boarded a small dirigible to fly over the North Pole. The audacious
journey would be the first ever flight from the European continent
to the American continent over the Arctic ice cap.
The Incredible Automobile
Race of 1907-
In 1907 eleven men set out to take
the newly born automobile on an adventure across two continents
and over deserts and through swamps. Would it be up to the challenge?
Crossing the Atlantic
By Air - On July 25th, 1909, Louis Bleriot
stunned the world by using an airplane to cross the English Channel.
Only ten years later the first men to fly the Atlantic would tackle
a distance of over one-hundred times greater than that of the
Channel flight and incalculably more dangerous.
Roy Chapman Andrews - Was this adventurer/scientist
the model for Hollywood's Indiana Jones?
Colonel Percy Fawcett - He charted the
wilderness of South America, but then disappeared without a trace.
To Catch a Dragon
- Follow the Burdan Expedition to remote
and dangerous Komodo Island.
Matthew Henson: Arctic
Explorer - Henson and Peary defy cold death in a
race to the North Pole.
Amelia Earhart's Last
Flight - The record breaking American aviator disappears
in the Pacific without a trace.
Leonid A. Kulik -
He braved the isolated swamps and rivers of Central Asia to
expose one of the greatest mysteries of the 20th Century.
Howard Carter and the
Curse of the Mummy - The rumor of an ancient curse
didn't stop this archaeologist from opening the tomb of King Tut.
Dian Fossey and the
Gorillas of the Virunga Volcanoes- She saw her gorillas
being driven to extinction, and started a war.
Raiders of the Lost
Tomb - Dr. Walter Alva puts his life on the line
to protect the lost treasures of the Moche.
Copyright Lee Krystek
1999-2004. All Rights Reserved.