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First woman to climb all fourteen eight-thousander mountains without supplementary oxygen: Alma Maximiliana Karlin: Slovene 1889: 1950: World traveler, writer, poet, polyglot and theosophist; second European woman to circle the world solo; in an eight-year travel, she explored North and South America, Oceania, Australia, East Asia, and India ...
Alford was born and raised in Nevada City, California to a traveling family. [7] She decided by the age of two that she wanted to explore the world. [8] Her parents were travel agents from whom she learned the skills of booking reservations and planning an itinerary. [8]
Jessica Watson OAM (born 18 May 1993) is an Australian sailor who was awarded the Order of Australia Medal after attempting a solo circumnavigation [1] at the age of 16. . Although she circled the planet, she did it in a narrow range of latitudes that resulted in her voyage falling short of the distance criterion of 21,600 nautical miles (40,000 km) for a circumnavigation – the equivalent of ...
Cassandra De Pecol (born June 23, 1989 [citation needed]) is an American author, traveler, activist, and speaker. [1] [2] In 2017, she set Guinness World Records in two categories: "Fastest time to visit all sovereign countries" and "Fastest time to visit all sovereign countries—Female". [3]
The first woman to circumnavigate the world in an automobile was Harriet White Fisher in 1909–1910, [9] but she used a chauffeur and did not drive herself. Partially sponsored by the Ford Motor Company, the round-the-world tour also sustained itself through filming and travel lectures, from Africa through the Middle East and on to Asia.
Melan Magazine said Spotts' claim had "caught all of us by surprise, especially as our attention was on another Black woman who was on a very public mission to achieve this same feat." [ 12 ] Arthur wrote that consensus had developed after 2019 that Spotts was the first Black woman to visit every country. [ 1 ]
Mock was quite a spectacle in Saudi Arabia where women would not be allowed to drive cars until 2017, [15] much less fly a plane. In Egypt, she mistakenly landed at a secret off-the-map military base instead of the Cairo Airport. [2] Traveling the world gave Mock a new perspective and experiences.
Annie Cohen Kopchovsky (1870 – 11 November 1947), [1] known as Annie Londonderry, was a Jewish Latvian immigrant to the United States who in 1894–95 became the first woman to bicycle around the world. After having completed her travel, albeit mostly by ship, she built a media career around engagement with popular conception of what it was ...