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The Explorers Club Finally Addresses Its Problematic Membership Bloomberg 2/16/2021
(Bloomberg) Members of the Explorers Club have done all sorts of truly remarkable things.
Since the club’s founding in 1904, they’ve included the first summit of Mount Everest (by member Sir Edmund Hillary in 1953), the first trip to both the North and South poles (by members Robert Peary and Roald Amundsen, respectively), the first trip to the moon (Neil Armstrong, in ’69), and the first descent to the deepest point in the ocean (James Cameron, 2012).
Besides belonging to the most prestigious club for adventurers, these trailblazers share another thing: They’re all white men.