Exploration
- Person to fly in a balloon and land in a parachute : Ram Chandra Chatterjee
- Person to reach the South Pole : Col Jatinder Kumar Bajaj
- Woman to scale Mount Everest : Bachendri Pal on 23 May 1984. She was the 5th woman in the world to scale the peak.
- Woman to reach South Pole : Reena Kaushal Dharmshaktu
- Person to reach the North Pole : Squadron Leader Sanjay Thapar
- Person to have walked across Gobi desert : Sucheta Kadethankar
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Famous quotes containing the word exploration:
“For women who do not love us, as for the “disappeared”, knowing that we no longer have any hope does not prevent us form continuing to wait. We live on our guard, on watch; women whose son has gone asea on a dangerous exploration imagine at any minute, although it has long been certain that he has perished, that he will enter, miraculously saved, and healthy.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)
“Typography tended to alter language from a means of perception and exploration to a portable commodity.”
—Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980)
“I call her old. She has one family
Whose claim is good to being settled here
Before the era of colonization,
And before that of exploration even.
John Smith remarked them as he coasted by....”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)