Meanwhile, he went on more expeditions with his new friends from the Explorers Club.

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Chimborazo to plant the Explorers Club flag atop the farthest point from the center of the Earth.

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The Explorers Club was founded in 1904 to support scientific exploration--and also, one suspects, to give its Edwardian-era members an excuse to pursue fascinating adventures in exotic places.

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Dr Sylvia Earle is an explorer in residence for National Geographic, honorary director of the Explorers' Club and has led more than 60 expeditions worldwide.

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Rusty Schweickart, a member of the Association of Space Explorers, a club of ex-astronauts and cosmonauts, has been working with his colleagues to lobby the United Nations to put asteroid-impact planning on the agenda.

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Then one day he decided to go fishing, and a simple twist of fate launched an improbable series of events which catapulted this San Antonio entrepreneur into the presidency of New York's venerable Explorers Club.

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The woman was Catherine Nixon Cooke, who needed the boots because she was preparing to lead an Explorers Club expedition to Nepal's remote Upper Arun Valley.

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With other Explorers Club members, Bennett has traveled to Hawaii to study humpback whales, to Madagascar to catalog the island's flora and fauna, to Mount Kilimanjaro for a bit of bioprospecting, and to Easter Island for an archeology project.

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