Kon tiki, Thor Heyerdahl; rowing the Atlantic, John Ridgway and Chay Blyth; the man who raced himself, Francis Chichester; golden globe, Knox-Johnston; ice bird, David Lewis; the empty quarter, Thesiger; the Blue Nile, John Blashford-Snell and Mike Jones; Annapurna the first 8000, Maurice Herzog; the challenge of Everset, Hillary; the Bonatti Pillar - Walter Bonatti at the Petit Dru; Annapurna, South Face, Chris Bonington; broad peak, Hermann Buhl; Diamir - Reinhold Messner on Nanga Parbat; the crossing of Antarctica, Fuchs and Hillary; solo to the pole, Naomi Uemura; first on the Moon, Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins; dead man's handshake - Yeadon and Statham caving; hot air - around the world non-stop in a balloon and by microlight - Branson, Rutan, Fossett, Elson, Piccard.
