Dr. Dave Williams is an astronaut, aquanaut, pilot, emergency physician, scientist, and CEO. He has flown to space twice, once on the space shuttle Columbia and once on Endeavour, logging over thirteen million kilometers in space and over seventeen hours of spacewalks. He holds the Canadian spacewalking record and was the first Canadian to have lived and worked in space and on Aquarius, the world’s only undersea research habitat. He is the recipient of seven honorary degrees, the Order of Canada, the Order of Ontario and is a Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographic Society.
When her father died suddenly in 2006, Sarah Outen decided to chart her grief with a solo rowing voyage across the Indian Ocean, from Australia to Mauritius. This fourmonth crossing in 2009 led her to conceive her...
Dr. Lynn Moorman is a professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Mount Royal University, in Calgary, Canada, where she teaches physical geography, geomorphology, advanced digital mapping, and geospatial technologies. Her re...
Polar Explorer Ann Daniels is a world record holder and one of Britain’s leading explorers. Starting out as a mother of young triplets and without any outdoor experience, pure hard work and belief led her to being selected from over 200 more exper...
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