Great explorers: where and when
Race to the South Pole: Robert Scott and Roald Amundsen
Voyage to new worlds: Christopher Columbus
Across the sea of darkness: Vasco da Gama
Round-the-world challenge: Ferdinand Magellan
Into the Pacific: Abel Tasman
Charting the South Seas: James Cook
An Asian adventure: Marco Polo
Gold rush in Florida: Hernando de Soto
Taming the wild west: Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
Coast to coast - Secret Africa: David Livingstone
Surviving in the African jungle: Mary Kingsley
The highest mountain: Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay
Alone on top of the world: Reinhold Messner
Adventures in the desert: Gertrude Bell
In search of ancient kingdoms: Wilfred Thesiger
Pioneer of the skies: Amelia Earhart
The first into space: Yuri Gargarin
Setting foot on the moon: Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin
To the ocean depths: Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Extreme challenges: Ranulph Fiennes