The Explorers Podcast

The Explorers Podcast is about the greatest explorers and explorations in history.

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Ernest Shackleton - Part 4 - The Nimrod Expedit...
Shackleton makes a run at the South Pole
68 min
127
Ernest Shackleton - Part 3 - 1903-1907
Shackleton become a public figure even as Antarctica beckons
41 min
128
Ernest Shackleton - Part 2 - The Discovery Expe...
Shackleton takes part in the 1901 Discovery Expedition
62 min
129
Ernest Shackleton - Part 1 - Early Years
The early life of Shackleton and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration
36 min
130
Alvise Cadamosto in the Age of Henry
Alvise Cadamosto explores the west coast of Africa and discovers the Cape Verde Islands
31 min
131
Henry the Navigator - Part 3/3
The explorations and legacy of Prince Henry of Portugal
26 min
132
Henry the Navigator - Part 2/3
Henry's captains continue to explore down the African coast; Henry tries to take Tangier
28 min
133
Henry the Navigator - Part 1/3
The early life of Prince Henry and the discoveries of the Madeira Islands and the Azores
26 min
134
Andrés de Urdaneta and the Manila Galleons
Explorer Andrés de Urdaneta maps the route from the Far East to the New World
31 min
135
Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay and the Conqu...
The world for Hillary and Tenzing after the 1953 summit of Everest
47 min
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Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay and the Conqu...
Hillary and Tenzing make their assault on the summit of Everest
43 min
137
Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay and the Conqu...
The 1953 British Mount Everest Expedition begins
35 min
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Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay and the Conqu...
The life of Tenzing Norgay and the world of the Sherpas
37 min
139
Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay and the Conqu...
A background on Edmund Hillary
31 min
140
George Mallory and the Assault on Everest - Par...
Mallory and Irvine make one final try on the summit of Everest
41 min
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George Mallory and the Assault on Everest - Par...
The 1924 British Mount Everest Expedition
30 min
142
George Mallory and the Assault on Everest - Par...
The 1922 British Mount Everest Expedition
37 min
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George Mallory and the Assault on Everest - Par...
In 1921, British mountaineer George Mallory would be the lead climber with the British Mount Everest reconnaissance expedition
35 min
144
Marco Polo - Part 5 - The Voyage Home
The Polos head home - completing a 24-year, 15,000+ mile journey.
35 min
145
Marco Polo - Part 4 - The Grand Canal and the C...
Marco Polo heads down the Grand Canal to the legendary City of Heaven
30 min
146
Marco Polo - Part 3 - The Mongol World
The Mongol World and Marco's first expedition across China
29 min
147
Marco Polo - Part 2 - The Silk Road
Marco Polo and his family travel the Silk Road to reach the court of the legendary Kublai Khan
30 min
148
Marco Polo - Part 1
Marco's father and uncle, Niccolò and Maffeo Polo, visit Kublai Khan and prepare for another journey east
22 min
149
Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza and the Exploration ...
Brazza returns to Africa as an administrator - and investigator
42 min
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Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza and the Exploration ...
Brazza returns to Africa where he will establish an outpost on the great Congo River
31 min