National Geographic - USA (2020-03)

Barbara Washburn’s sec- ond ever hike was up the 13,628-foot Mount Hayes, in 1941. Six years later she gazed over the Denali Pas ...

Marie Tharp 1920-2006 Mapped the ocean floor and advanced the theory of continental drift Painstakingly charted sonar data of th ...

Biruté Galdikas’s almost 50-year study of wild orang- utans in Indonesia revealed their social lives and habits. RODNEY BRINDAMO ...

Marion Stirling Pugh 1911-2001 Helped conduct expeditions that reshaped understanding of Mesoamerican history Marion Stirling (l ...

ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH 1906-2001 First woman in the U.S. to earn a glider pilot license; first woman to receive a National Geogra ...

DICKEY CHAPELLE 1919-1965 Fearless National Geographic photojournalist who covered WWII through the Vietnam War; first female Am ...

No amount of firepower could keep Dickey Chapelle away from war. In her photo (below) from the Vietnam War, an inferno flushes V ...

Jess Cramp Born 1979 Marine biologist who helped create one of the world’s largest shark sanctuaries In the Cook Islands, where ...

Ella Al-Shamahi Born 1983 Anthropologist researching Neander- thals in unstable and disputed territories Munazza Alam is searchi ...

There can be magic in photographing women. Skovranova, who contributes to the @natgeo Ins- tagram account, says she is enchanted ...

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