Six Badass North American Explorers

Is the age of the intrepid explorer over? Type the name of any location into an online map and boom, there it is. Except there’s no software that can curb the all-consuming sense of adventure many of us feel — that restless drive to just get up and go. So at a time when the attention-grabbing acts of exploration are firmly fixed on jetting off into space, we’d do well to remember those on whose shoulders Bezos, Branson and company are standing. Wacky, brave and oftentimes stubborn, the six American adventurers profiled in today’s Daily Dose let their passion for parts unknown run wild. From the legendary Black pioneer to the first woman to reach the peak of the tallest mountain in North America to today’s underwater mavens, let us take you on an inspiring journey of wild discovery.