Steve Fosset

STEVE FOSSET

STEVE FOSSET
James Stephen "Steve" Fossett (April 22, 1944- September 3, 2007) was an American businessman a sailor, and adventurer. Fossett's interest in adventure began early. As a Boy Scout, he grew up climbing the mountains of California, beginning with the San Jacinto Mountains.
Steve Fossett was well known for his world records and adventures in balloons, sailboats, gliders, and powered aircraft. On February 21, 1995, Fossett landed in leader, Saskachewan, Canada, after taking off from South Korea, becoming the first person to make a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon.

In 1968, Fossett received an MBA from the Olin School of Business at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. Fossett then became a successful salesman in Chicago, first for Merrill Lynch in 1973, he began working in 1976 for Drexel Burnham, which assigned him one of its memberships on the Chicago Board of Trade.

 Isabel Igbinakhase, 2ºB.

Ellen MacArthur

She was born in Whatstandwell, United Kingdom on July 8, 1976. She has 2 brothers Fergus and Lewis. At age of 17 she began hER interest in sailing. In 2001 she began her athletic career where she was named a member of the British Empire Order. At 24, SHE was the youngest competitor to complete the trip.

Pedro Duque

He has born in Madrid, Spain, the 14 of March of 1963. Now he is 53 years old, and he is married TO A Spanish woman called María Consuelo Femenía, and they have three kids.

In 1988,  he EARNED A DEGREE FROM  the UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA in Madrid, being the first of hiS promotion. In the same year he started working FOR a Spanish company of investigation. In 1992 he participated in a quIZz to become an astronaut. He won that qUIZZ and they started training Pedro in USA to become an elit astronaut. In October 1998 he did his first trip to the space, in wHich he worked with the ESA an international company of investigation of the space. In that mission he worked as a supervisor of the ship. In 2003 he went to the space ON “Misión Cervantes".

He is special because he was the first Spanish mAn,born in Spain, to travel to the space. LotS of people think THAt the first man to do this was Miguel López-Alegría, born in Spain,  but he was American, so the first one was Pedro Duque. 

He has recEIVED lots of prices like Principe de Asturias or being called: Doctor Honoris Causa three times: 2005 in Valencia, 2011 Madrid and 2016 UNED

Carlos Ene 2B

Captain JAMES COOK

Sara Veras Bazán 2ºB

JAMES COOK

James Cook was a British navigator, explorer and cartographer. He was born on 27 October 1728 in Marton (Yorkshire). His parents were James and Grace. His father was a farmer. He had four brothers.

When he was 13, he began to work with his father in a farm; and five years later, he was apprentice in a merchant navy.

He realized three trips and he discovered big areas and many islands of Pacific Ocean.

The first expedition was on 1768. His main objective was to observe the planet Venus as it passed between the Earth and the Sun and of this way to help to astronomers.

The second expedition took place from 1772 to 1775. His goal was to discover the southern continent. He also visited Easter Island.

The third expedition and the last trip took place from 1776 to 1779. The goal was to find a northwest passage across Nort America to Asia. He searched the coast of Alaska to no avail but, however, he found the Hawaiians Islands. The Hawaiians natives killed Captain James Cook at age of 50.

He is famous for his work of cartography making maps about Terranova and New Zealand.

JOHN CABOT

JOHN CABOT

John Cabot, also known as Giovanni Caboto, was born in Italy around 1450, although this date is the one that is most commonly given for his birth. His father's name is Giulio Caboto and he had a brother called Piero. He was a maritime explorer.

In 1471, he was accepted in the religious confraternity of St. John the Evangelist. In 1476, Caboto would have been eligible to engage maritime trade.

Cabot appears to have left Venice in the late 1480s due to financial trouble, moving to Valencia (Spain), where he was attempted to be arrested.

Like other Italian explorers, including Cristopher Colombus, Cabot led an expedition to another European nation, in his case, England.

His first voyage was little recorded, and his second one was around 1497.

His final voyage was in May 1498 with five ships, one of which had been prepared by the King of London.

One of his children, Sebastian Cabot, became an explorer as well, later making at least one voyage to North America.

He died in 1500.

Juan Martínez García, 2ºB

Ferdinand Magellan

                                    ~Ferdinand Magellan~

Ferdinand Magellan was born in Sabrosa (Portugal), approximately in 1480. He was the son of Rodrigo de Magalhães and Alada de Mesquita, who were members of the Portuguese nobility. When Ferdinand WAS ten years old, he became a page* of the queen. He studied at Queen Leonora's School of Pages in Lisbon (capital of Portugal) and spent a lot of time learning about cartography, astronomy and celetial navigation*- subjects that would be very useful in the future.

A very important event of Ferdinand Magelland was his birth in 1480 in Sabrosa (Portugal). In 1517 he told the king, Carlos I, ABOUT his plan: reach the spice islands from the east so, on 10th August 1519 HE startED the voyage of circumnavigation* (the first in the world). ANOTher important event is his dead on 27th April 1521, in Lapu-Lapu city, Philippines. The most important event was that the voyage of circumnavigation was completed in September 1522 when they had returnED to Spain.

The event that makes this person important is that he organised the first voyage of circumnavication that was completed.

*Page: young male servant and sometimes messenger.

*Celestial navigation: observation of the celestial bodies.

*Voyage of circumnavigation: travel around the world

                                                                                              by Ming-Tao  Ye   2ºB

Ernest Shackleton

              

                         BIOGRAPHY OF ERNEST SHACKLETON

Ernest Shackleton born ON 15th February 1874, in Kilkea, Ireland and he died when he was 48 years ON 5th JAnuary 1922, in Georgia. HIS father was Henry Shackleton and his mother was Henrietta Letitia Sophia Gavan. He married Emily Dorman. After  HE married he had two boys called Raymond and Edward and one girl called Cecily. When he WAS 16 years old he enlistED in the army.

Ernest TOOK PART in the Expedition Discovery with Robert Falcon Scott FROM 1901 to 1903. Later he participed in the Expedition Nimrod FROM 1907 to 1909 and in the Expedition Imperial Trasantartic FROM 1914 to 1917. In 1917 he came back to England and he went to the First World War, in 1918 he came back to England.

But Ernest was importan because he explored the AntartCTICA and  BECAUSE he discovered a specific place of Antarctica.

     
                                      Andrei Gabriel Vlasceanu 2ºB

NELLY BLY

Nelly Bly was born on May 5, 1864 in Pennsylvania 

Nellie Bly married the millionaire Robert Seaman in 1895, and at the same time she moved back from the journalism in some time. When Seaman died in 1904, Nellie took the reins of the companies of HER husband and UNDERTOOK sanitary reforms in them, modified schedules and offered wages more just what transported an added popularity. SHE was ruined and SHE had to dedicate to journalism  again Then ' began writing in THE Evening Journal', of New York.

Elizabeth "Pink" Cochrane died AT THE AGE OF 57 of pneumonia. SHE is buried in the same cemetery as other famous journalistS who died in 1929: Elizabeth Bisland, who competed with Bly in  HER TRIP AROUND THE WORLD.

In Brooklyn (New York) there exists a small amusement park that TOOK Elizabeth's name.

JOSE SANTACRUZ 2A

Edmund Hillary

He was born in Auckland on July 20, 1919. He had a sister called June and a brother called Rex. At age 16, he began his interest in climbing after an excursion to Ruapehu (Tuakau ). During World War II he was a member of the Royal New Zealand Air Force and suffered severe burns on the Solomon Islands.

In 1951 he was part of an Everest expedition WHICH was a failure. In 1953, he joined the British expedition as part of the Trans-Antarctic expedition of the Commonwealth which was the third expedition that reached the South Pole, and the first that reached the South Pole with vehicles.

He married Louise Mary Rose and they had three children: Peter, Sarah and Belinda. In 1975, the plane which his wife Louise and her Belinda daughter were in crashed in Kathmandu. He married again in 1989 with Juna Mulgrew. In 1980 he WAS NAMED ambassador in India. Hillary died of A heart attack when he was eighty-eight years old

In 2008 Lukle Airport, the nearest to the Everest, was renamed as Tenzing-Hillary in his honour.

                                                                                                                                   Gabriel Ostáriz 2ºC

Gertrude Bell

Full name: Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell .
Birthdate July 14 , 1868 in Durham and died on July 12 , 1926 in Bagdad.
SHE STUDIED in a school for girls called Londinense Queens School . SHE WAS A GOOD STUDENT   and they sent to Oxford where SHE received many insults by students and teachers .

ALTHOUGH Gertrude bell had became a very intelligent woman and began to look for husband , Gertrude  bell was a woman of more than twenty years of age looking for a husband but She forgot about that and went to Irak  IT WAS THERE THAT SHE FOUND a  man WHOSE name WAS Henry Cadagon and was a secretary AT the Embassy.

One year before Henry Cadagon death in 1899 after many trips around Europe crossing mountains and enjoying the Asian culture  SHE decided to return to THE East to travel to the desert in an expedition that years later DID and enter into a nomadic world in which SHE knew different cultures.
SHE CONTINUED making trips to the desert. It was IN one of the expeditions WHEN SHE met a student called Lawrence.

Later he got into Eastern politics that world save her for a long time because she had suffered a second amorous disappointment . After losing an impossible love a married man that would end also a tragic end.
The English goverment contract for stay until the coronation of the Emir Faisal in Irak . In 1926 she got in a depression because at almost sixty years and still had no family until the 12 july 1926 suicide .
Specials things that make this person important ? did many important things on my part are o have been an anthropologist and to endure the insults of many people just for being a woman .                                        Kened 2-A

AMELIA EARHART

AMELIA EARHART

Amelia Earhart was born in Atchison, Kansas, EEUU, the 24th of july 1897.IN HER CHILDHOOD, Amelia LIVED with her grandparents, WHO took care of Amelia. AS a child she had a comfortable life with her grandparents. She was  ALWAYS a curious child. In 1905 she moved with her family to Des Moines. When she was 10 years old, she saw her first airplane in a exhibition. Her father became AN alcoholic and he was fired from his job and the family moved again to St Paul and then to Springfield.

During the World War I she AND her sister helped the pilots and she visited an air field. In 1920 Amelia was passionate about the planes because she went to an exhibition with her family in California.

Amelia became famous because she was the first woman who crossed the Atlantic ocean as a passenger. In 1932 she crossED  the Atlantic ocean alone in a plane. THEN, in 1935 she crossed Hawaii and California. This was a very difficult trip.

When this women wanted to finish her trip across the Equator in 1937 she disappeared. Amelia is a figure of the feminism, a national idol  and a legend because of her disappearance.

Marcos Navarro 2º B

Edurne Pasabán

Edurne Pasabán

Edurne Pasabán was born on the first of August 1973 in a family of industrialists from  THE Basque Country. She lived in Tolosa (Guipúzcoa) for all of her childhood. She studied an engineering degree and a Master in Business Administration at the same time that she was climbing all the main mountains in Europe such as, Mont Blanc in the Alps.

After this, she achieved her first 8.000 peak. It was in 2001 when she was able to reach the summit of  Mount Everest in The Himalayan Mountains. She was the first woman to climb all the fourteen eight-thousanders peaks in the world together with other people. She achieved this in May, 2010 fiNIShing the route in the Shisha (north of Kathmandu, Tibet) .

Nowadays she lives in Barcelona and studies in one high performance center. She regulary works as a coacher in companies and gives lectures about self-motivation , because she is AN example of this. As well as this, she has written the book ‘Objetivo: confianza’ WHIch is about the Everest expedition in 2011.

Edurne Pasabán  makes the world a better place because she is a model of courage, overcoming and hard work.

ANA CALVO 2º A ESO English

ERIK WEIHENMAYER

Erik Weihenmayer was born in Princeton, New Yersey, on 23th September 1968. Erik´s wife is called Elle Reeve, and they have two children, Arjun Weihenmayer and Emma Weihenmayer. 

When he was 13, Erik became blind by a strange disease. From THE BEGINNING, his father supported hiM very much AND ENCOURAGED HIM to DO sports, because Erik loved sports. When he was 16, he started climBING mountains. AT THE AGE OF 32, he became famous for bEING the first blind man who climbed Mount Everest. And in September 2002, he climbed the Seven Summits.

After climbING all those mountains, Erik wrote “Touch the Top of the World: A blind´s man journey to climb farther thaN the eye can see”, a book where he recounts his memories on the highest summits. Actually, Erik gives lectures to motivate people to fulfill their dreams.

Adelina Diana, 2A.

Harriet Chalmers Adams

       
     Harriet Chalmers Adams

She was born on the 22nd of October

1875 in Stockton, California.

Her parents were Alexander Chalmers

and Frances Wilkens. She married to Franklin Pierce Adams. She was

a journalist and an explorer.

In 1904 she embarked on her first expedition on a three-year journey through South America with her husband.

Between 1907 and 1935 she wrote 21 articles for the ilustrated National Geographic with her photos, among them there are ”Some wonderful views in the Andes",”Kaledoscope La Paz city of clouds”and ”Paraguay surrounded by rivers”.In 1925 she helped to create the Society of women Geographers. She died in Nize on July 17th,1937 at the age of 61.

In an obituary of the Washington Post was called ”a confident hunter of savages who were never tired of travelling the most remote corners of the world".

David Delgado 2ºA

EDURNE PASABÁN

Edurne Pasaban

Edurne Pasabán was born in Tolosa, Spain, on 1^st August  1973. She is  A graduate* in Industrial Engineer*. When she was 14, she was in a mountain club and little by little she climbed mountains more AND MORE difficult like Pyrenees, Alps, Andes and Himalayas. At the age of 15 he started ROCK climbING  with her cousin. After that she climbed the Mont Blanc and at the age of 17 she climbed the Alps.

Edurne Pasabán is a Spanish alpinist and the first woman to climb all of the fourteen eight-thousanders * peaks in the World. Because of her hard work, she won a lot of awards, as Gold Medal for Sports Merit and Award of the Best Sporty of the year.

Edurne Pasabán climbed the fourteen eight-thousanders in 9 years. She started climbING Mount Everest, her first eight-thousander, on 23^rd May in 2001 and she finished climbING Shisha Pangma, her last eight-thousander, on 17th May in 2010.

Now, she LECTURES for young people, teenagers and businessMEN about personal motivation* and will power*.

VOCABULARY

* Industrial Engineer: Ingeniería industrial.

* rock: roca.

* will power: fuerza de voluntad.

* The fourteen eight-thousanders: los catorce ochomiles.

* personal motivation: motivación personal

CANDELA MORALES 2ºA

SALLY RIDE

                                     

                                                              

Sally Kristen Ride was born 26 May, 1951 in Encino, Los Angeles, California, U.S. She was the first child of Dale Burdell Ride and Carol Joyce. She had one sister, Karen. Sally went to Portola Junior High and then to Birmingham High School. She graduated from the private Westlake School for Girls in L.A. She attended Swarthmore College for three semesters. She took physics courses at University of California and then entered Stanford University as a junior, graduating with a bachelor's degree in English and physics. At Stanford, she got a master's degree in 1975 and a PhD in physics in 1978.

Sally was one of the 8,000 people who answered an advertisement in the Stanford student newspaper for a space program. She was chosen to join NASA in 1978. During her career, she was communicator of the capsule (CapCom) for the second and third space shuttle flights and helped develop the space shuttle's "Canadarm" robot arm. In the 18 of July in 1983 she was the first womAn in America who went to the space in the space shuttle Challenger. Her second space flight was in 1984, on the Challenger toO . She had completed eight months of training for her third flight when the space shuttle Challenger had a disaster. She was named to the Rogers Commission (the presidential commission investigating the accident). After this, Sally was destined to the central office in Washington, D.C

Ride was famous because she received numerous awards. She was into the National Women's Hall of Fame and the Astronaut Hall of Fame. She was an American physicist and astronaut. Ride was the third woman in space, after Valentina Tereshkova (1963) and Svetlana Savitskaya (1982). Ride remains the youngest American astronaut to have travelled to space, at the age of 32.

Vocabulary

remains: permanece

Valeria Marco Fantova 2 E.S.O

KILIAN JORNET

Kílian Jornet Burgada was born 27 October 1987 in Sabadell, Spain. He is a Spanish ski mountaineer .His  parents are Eduard Jornet and Núria Burgada. His father was a hut keeper and mountain guide. His mother is A mountain sports teacher. He won six times the long-distance running Skyrunner World Series and he won some of the most important marathons, like the Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc.

Lucía Franco 2ºA

At the age of three he climbed  the three thousands in the Pyrenees. When he was five he climbed Aneto, the highest mountain in the Pyrenees, and a year later he climbed his first  four thousands,  the Breithorn in Switzerland.He started ski mountaineering in 1999 and competed for the first time at  La Molina race of the Spanish Cup in 2000. In 2003 he became a junior member of the Spanish national ski mountaineering team, and HAS BEEN a senior since 2007. Jornet studied at the University of Perpignan Via Domitia. His sister Naila Jornet Burgada and his girlfriend Emelie Forsberg also compete in ski mountaineering and skyrunning events. 

 Summits “of My Life” is a  personal project, in which he is trying to ascenD and descenD records for some of the most important mountains on the planet, and is planned to culminate with the record on Mount Everest. Finally I want to say that he wrote two books called “Run or Die” and “The Invisible Border.” I think Kilian is a persistent man with a lot of thriumps in his liFe BUT he HAS worked VERY hard to becOme the man that he is now.

Sylvia Earle

Sylvia Earle was born in Gibbestown, New Jersey, U.S.A. on 30th August 1935. Her parents are enthusiastic about the natural world interests of their daughter. Her most important distinctions are a master of Science(1955) and a Doctorate of PSycHology (1966) FROM Duke University.


After received her PSycHology Doctorate in 1966 she spent a year as a researcher in Harvard. In 1969, she requested an income for the Tektike Project in Virgin Islands. In 1979, she beat the record deep in women under the depths of Oahu.

Sylvia Earle is a important person because she wants to save the oceans and the seas. She is a very loved person for the lovers of the seas and the oceans.


By Lucian Andrei 2ºA

Liv Arnesen

Liv Arnesen  (Liv Rangheim Arnesen) was born in Baerum, Norway on 1th June 1953. When she was young, her parents  fancied skiing and she loved it right away*. At 9 years she read a book of Roald Amundsen about an expedition to the South Pole and she thought  THAT she wanted to DO THAT in the future. And that’s it how it was.

Now she is an educator, skire, adventurous, guide and motivational speaker*. She led* the first expedition composed BY women who crossed the ice cap in Greenland in 1992. In 1994 she was converted in the fisrt woman to reach the South Pole skiing. It lasted 51 days and 1200 kilometres. In 1996 she tried to climb the Everest but she had to be removeD*. In 2001 she and the explorer Ann Bancroft became the first women of the history to cross the Antartic, in 94 days and 2747 kilometres. Also Liv wrote a book that is called ` The good girls don’t go to the South Pole´.     

Liv is a person who defends the environment and she is against* machismo in extreme sports. She is a very good person. I love Liv!!

VOCABULARY

  *right away: enseguida    *motivational speaker: conferenciante motivadora

*led: lideró    *remove: retirar   *against: en contra               


Carla Gracia 2ºA ESO English