Biographies of travelers

There are people on the globe, who seem to someone strange eccentrics, and one of the young romantics considers their life to be the embodiment of a dream. Dreams of distant countries, endless horizons, exciting the breath of the eternal wind of changes. The world -famous travelers who gave mankind their views on the beautiful distant and extended the horizons of knowledge for us, continue, like an eternal engine, their movement in search of an unknown.

Decades and centuries are replaced, but again and again people of dreams and roads are born, for which the guiding star burns and sings the wind of wanderings. The most famous names of the people who looked beyond the horizon Roal Amundsen are a legend of polar expanses, the Norwegian traveler who conquered both earth poles. Moreover, he was the first at the southern point of our planet.

The South Pole submitted to the brave researcher on December 14. The word "first" seemed to be born with Amundsen. He was the first traveler who made the transition by the northwestern passage. Robert Folkon Cattle is a hereditary naval officer of the British Navy. In search of fame, he connected his life with polar research. He headed the expedition to the South Pole twice. For the first time, he managed to explore the land of Victoria and the shelf of Ross.

Despite the fact that during the second expedition, he lost to Amundsen a little less than a month and, having reached the cherished goal, died with his comrades on the way back, the South Pole made him a national hero of Great Britain. James Cook legendary English navigator, traveler, discoverer of unknown lands, cartographer. Three times he headed round -the -world expeditions on the research of the World Ocean, during which a detailed Newfoundland map was drawn up, the eastern coast of Australia and Hawaii was investigated.

The Pacific Ocean obeyed him from the Atlantic to the Bering Strait, and the maps compiled by him in the 18th century served the sailors for more than a hundred years until the second half of the 19th century.

Fernan Magellan may be the most famous Portuguese in the world. More than once, he went into swimming as part of various expeditions, before he sailed from the Spanish shores to the west in the year, going on a trip around the world in search of new sea routes and lands. Five of his ships reached South America, circled the mainland from the south, discovering the famous Magellan Strait and arrived at the Philippine Islands.

There ended a great campaign for the legendary Portuguese traveler who died in the war of local leaders. The only ship from the entire expedition returned to his homeland, on board which 18 people survived. Vasco da Gama is another Portuguese traveler who lived in the same time rich in discoveries and adventures as Magellan. The goal of his three sea expeditions was exotic India.

Vasco de Gama held the positions of the Governor of Portuguese India and the Vice-Korol of India, pursuing the colonial policy of Portugal. The first to pave the sea route from Europe to India. The great traveler was ruined by malaria, which he fell ill in India. Yuri Senkevich - for many years, the viewers of our country listened with great interest to his stories in the popular television program “Travelers Club”.

The famous TV presenter, candidate of medical sciences, colonel of the medical service, Yuri Alexandrovich traveled not only on the screen. The list of his achievements Antarctic expedition to the Vostok station, the famous journey as part of the international crew of the tour Heyerdal on the papyrus boat RA-2 and Tigris, the first Soviet expedition to Everest.

Fedor Konyukhov Rod. Our contemporary, repeatedly challenged nature. A single traveler, accustomed to rely only on God and his strength, Fedor Filippovich made more than 40 travels to the most difficult corners of our land. On the account of the great researcher, five circles and solitary swimming through the Atlantic on a funny boat. Over and over again, he proves that there are no obstacles to the human spirit and God's craft.

Bear Grylls Rod. His world famous is owed to the transfer on the Discovery channel "survive at all costs." There is a feeling that the name of the transmission became the motto of the whole life of Grigalls, which crossed the North Atlantic on an inflatable boat, flew over the Angel waterfall on an airplane with a steam engine, flew over the Himalayas on a paraglider, conquered Everest, despite the fact that he fell on the top to the top and hung on the insurance, set the record of the most “high” dinner, organizing it, organizing it.

Carrying in a balloon at an altitude of meters. Bear Grylls conducts most of his projects for charity purposes. Jacques-Yve Cousteau, while other travelers were eager for unconquered peaks and poles, the French researcher conquered the depths of the oceans. In the year, he developed and experienced scuba gear, opening the path to the now popular diving. Coustea allowed us to see the extraordinary beauty and miracles lurking under the thickness of sea water, showing a wonderful underwater world in his books and films.