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1 week ago | 
explorersweb.com | Reynier Squillace |Lou Bodenhemier |Angela Benavides
Everything that falls into a black hole falls in at the same time. Perhaps in the distant past, some unfortunate alien astronaut was sent past the event horizon to explore what lies beyond. From our perspective, he is still falling across the threshold. He has been since he first fell in, back before his civilization crumbled, before his home planet tumbled into its sun, and that sun collapsed into a white dwarf. From his perspective, he only just crossed it. What will he find on the other side?
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3 weeks ago | 
explorersweb.com | Reynier Squillace |Kris Annapurna |Lou Bodenhemier |Angela Benavides
A 22-year-old climber died on Saturday in a fall from Scotland’s highest mountain. His climbing partner, 30, is in the hospital with significant but not life-threatening injuries. Both men are believed to hail from England. A rescue and a tragedyAround 5 pm on Saturday evening, Police Scotland received reports of two injured climbers below the Moonlight Gully, a popular beginner’s ski route.
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3 weeks ago | 
explorersweb.com | Reynier Squillace |Kris Annapurna |Angela Benavides |Lou Bodenhemier
In the dying years of the Roman Empire, a vassal king in the distant territory of Wales rallied his forces to shake off Roman rule. When the Saxons, too, turned their eye on his kingdom, that Welsh king joined with his northern confreres to beat them back. Eventually, he founded a model kingdom 800 years ahead of its time, complete with knights, metal armor, and even an early form of parliament. His name was King Arthur, and unfortunately he did not exist, at least in a recognizable way.
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1 month ago | 
explorersweb.com | Reynier Squillace |Kris Annapurna |Angela Benavides |Lou Bodenhemier
Li Dongju made headlines recently for her cross-continental biking adventures. Between misadventures with border guards in Bosnia, reporting a budding wildfire in Australia, and camping out in cemeteries, there’s enough peculiar adventure to fill any travel influencer’s Instagram or YouTube page. But Li Dongju isn’t a content creator selling a lifestyle to millennials or Gen Z. She’s 66, has a scant social media presence, and gets by on a meager pension from her time in a textile factory.
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1 month ago | 
explorersweb.com | Reynier Squillace |Kris Annapurna |Angela Benavides
Before it shut down in 2022, a telescope in Chile captured one final gift for the world that has just been released: the universe’s baby photos, just 380,000 years after the Big Bang. These freckled photos of the early universe, at an instant known as the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), are the farthest back in time we can look. Observing the Big Bang or immediately after is not possible, and not just because of technical limitations.
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1 month ago | 
explorersweb.com | Reynier Squillace |Kris Annapurna |Angela Benavides |Rebecca McPhee
The camera pans up a minimalist landscape of snow and stone. Jagged spires stab into the air, their dramatic profiles accentuated by the sharp drone of a male voice singing wordlessly. It might be the beginning of Meru — until the throat singing cuts out, and the narrator says, “My bad, little something in my throat.”The Crystal Towers: a Yukon Climbing Story is one of three projects funded by the Yukon government for its 125th anniversary.
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1 month ago | 
explorersweb.com | Reynier Squillace |Kris Annapurna |Rebecca McPhee |Angela Benavides
It came from the Oort Cloud, a giant web of floating miniature planets lying just beyond the edges of the solar system. It dazzled the skies above Chile for a handful of weeks. Now it’s gone for the next 600,000 years. The Oort CloudThe Oort Cloud, technically, isn’t a confirmed place. It’s a theoretical location. Some comets orbit the Sun over hundreds of thousands or even millions of years. They must, therefore, call somewhere home.
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1 month ago | 
explorersweb.com | Reynier Squillace |Angela Benavides |Kris Annapurna
Last week, the world was obsessed with an asteroid that had a 3% probability of hitting us in 2032. Now NASA says it doesn’t have a chance in 50,000. What happened? How are impact probabilities calculated? I wrote last year about how potentially hazardous asteroids are detected. One aspect I neglected is what that “impact probability” actually means.
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1 month ago | 
explorersweb.com | Reynier Squillace |Angela Benavides |Kris Annapurna
In northwestern New Mexico lie the architectural remnants of the Chaco Culture. Starting in the 9th century AD, these ancestors of the Pueblo built multi-storied houses, long-distance trade networks, and broad roads carved straight into limestone. When the U.S. government first started mapping the ruins in the 1980s, they assumed the Chaco roads were merely for transport. Today, archaeologists disagree.
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2 months ago | 
explorersweb.com | Reynier Squillace |Kris Annapurna |Andrew McLemore |Lou Bodenhemier
Archaeologists exploring a neglected corner of the Valley of Kings in Egypt have identified the tomb of an Egyptian pharaoh of the New Kingdom. This marks the first such tomb found since 1922 when the discovery of 19-year-old pharaoh Tutankhamun’s burial chambers enraptured the world. The inhabitant of this tomb has a lower profile. Pharaoh Thutmose II ruled for only five years until his death at age 30, when he fell victim to a disease that left him scarred and shriveled.
