Sentences with phrase «on expedition in»

It happened that Wegener loved geology as much as meteorology (he was also dedicated to studies in Greenland, where he disappeared on an expedition in his fiftieth year).

Greenpeace is on expedition in the Arctic this summer to record the life systems on the sea floor of the Arctic Ocean for the first time and to continue work on glacier melt in Greenland.

This incredible site was left unknown to the outside world until 1911 when American historian Hiram Bingham, with the aid of local indigenous farmers, found the relatively intact Machu Picchu on an expedition in search of lost Inca cities.

Cronin is able to make characters who only appear on 10 pages as alive as his main characters, and in the novel's first 100 pages he has set the stage for what promises to be an epic saga: a young girl is abandoned; a scientific team on an expedition in South America discovers a mysterious, deadly virus; a death row inmate is released and transported to a secret location by a military operative for experimentation.

Yet, for a child inspired by the classic monster movies from Universal Pictures growing up, the writer / director has never had an opportunity to realize his dream of remaking The Creature from the Black Lagoon, which featured the prehistoric Gillman (Ben Chapman on land, Ricou Browning for the underwater sequence)- and his fascination with Kay (Julie Adams), who is part of a group of scientists on an expedition in the Amazonian jungle.

A beard - tastic team of scientists on expedition in the Arctic takes in a dog.

Ok, so no one goes on an expedition in platform sandals but the pockets on the romper definitely could have served as a place for carrying trekking essentials (lip balm & candy?)

Matjaž Kuntner at the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Ljubljana stumbled across the spider on an expedition in Yunnan province.

Geologist Walter Alvarez was on an expedition in Italy during the early 1970s when he noticed something fascinating in the limestone mountains outside Gubbio: two dark layers of rock sandwiching a lighter, half - inch - thick seam.

High - life monkey: Nature Conservation Foundation biologists on an expedition in India announced the serendipitous find of a new monkey.

Over many years the staff of Ramdung Go has accompanied me on my expeditions in Nepal.

Not exact matches

Facebook claims he's on a «fishing expedition for material to use in his longstanding campaign against the prime minister of Cambodia.»

I said that I planned to go on the first expedition, which would take place in 2015, and my fellow «Volcanauts» would be rapper will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas and actor Tom Hanks.

I plan to stay here in Houston for the next several months performing my debriefs, passing on the knowledge and experience I've gained through my six - month expedition to flight controllers, scientists and engineers.

Not in the sense of being Indiana Jones in the middle of the desert or anything like that, but in the sense that what he believed in was public education and multi-disciplinary programs where you're working with many different groups of scientists, doing expeditions to exotic places, and so on.

«My first stop on any time - travel expedition,» Gates once said, «would be Bell Labs in December 1947.»

Prince Harry spent 4 weeks on an expedition to the North Pole in 2011 to raise awareness for wounded servicemen and women.

But for those who board the Crystal Esprit — a 62 - passenger expedition yacht that travels to the Adriatic and the West Indies — there's an extra special amenity: a once - in - a-lifetime ride on a high - tech personal submarine.

I grew up on a farm in Cornwell, Conn. and after majoring in environmental science in college, I spent several years leading high school students on expeditions into the woods to teach them about the environment.

I just got back from a true «bucket list» fishing expedition to the Brazilian Amazon jungle for peacock bass, and while I was able to put work on the back burner for a week, the successful trip led me to think about just how important a fiduciary relationship can be in every transaction we undertake.

BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner who has joined Mr Allen on some of his expeditions in the past, told BBC Breakfast that Mr Allen had tracked «huge distances» to reach the remote airstrip.

[100] In the ensuing months, Muhammad led expeditions on tribes allied with Mecca and sent out a raid on a Meccan caravan.

I have protested against confining the significance of Jesus Christ to a divine rescue expedition, but the plain testimony of two thousand years of Christianity is that Jesus Christ does rescue us in the supreme sense that through his deed, culminating on Calvary, he opens up the right road to fulfillment and provides grace — which, as Kenneth Kirk once said, is God's love in action — to enable us to walk that road, even in times of stress and even though we are quite likely to stumble and fall again and again.

It was not to be found in the overtly public (dare I say American) ministry of marching for civil rights and peace, or in his commentaries and books on public culture; but rather it was the interpersonal, interior expeditions of a shared faith (a quintessential Canadian attribute born out of long, cold winters spent indoors).

The city of Bismarck was founded in 1872 in what was then the Dakota Territory, at a bend in the Missouri River where Lewis and Clark had stopped on their famous expedition to the West.

While on a routine parachuting expedition his chute failed to open properly and as he landed he broke his back in three places.

From controlling the foreign Affairs of Afghanistan after the 1st Anglo - Afghan war to drawing the Durand line between the Pashtuns after the 2nd Anglo - Afghan war, Why should the Afghans trust the British when the forefathers of Afghans fought against the Empire and today you send your royal family member on military expeditions in Afghanistan, why good have you done for any other country you have entered into militarily - what good can you do for Afghanistan when you have never been sincere with Afghans, Afghan never bought the story of Britain entering the war to eliminate poppy fields, the world is aware poppy production increase where British are present and Afghans know very well the British empire introduced poppy growing over 200 years ago to Afghanistan for transport through silk road and on to Hong Kong.

Pillinger had hoped that the probe, named after HMS Beagle, the expedition ship of Charles Darwin, would bring about a «quantum leap» in our knowledge of Mars, just as Darwin had forever changed our understanding of life on Earth.

Williams and his wife Mary travelled on their first missionary expedition to the South Pacific in 1817.

Here's a selection of what we found in Calabria on our peperoncino expedition:

One key Travel Trail initiative we are trialling for Jacob's Creek Expedition is a digital campaign targeting Qantas Frequent Fliers with forward international flights from Australia booked on dates aligned to coincide with the launch of product on shelf and in - airport activity.

Ryan Robinson's interest in wine began over 15 years ago as a Lounge Manager on Lindblad Expeditions, an outdoor adventure cruise liner focused on ecotourism.

In one episode, Bal tries to speed up a home construction project by feeding her carpenter friend a Spice - infused Steak, then escapes the construction zone by taking her kids on an impromptu bungee - jumping expedition.

This past Autumn, I went on several berry - picking expeditions out in the tundra.

Together, Lance and Tonya went cold turkey, and as soon as he made enough money — he worked on a construction crew, on fishing expeditions and at a local sawmill — they made a down payment on some property in the woods three miles from the beach.

This past winter, in the last hour of my last afternoon on Banner Reef, 20 black frigate birds came from the east, like dark messengers from the past, and hung in the sky over the expedition boat.

The expedition that found this one significant medal was sponsored by a Fort Worth oilman, F. Kirk Johnson Jr., who, though a novice on the Banner Reef scene, has a certified curiosity — in 1957 he led an expedition into the Himalayas to search for the Abominable Snowman.

At the end of his fourth search on Banner Reef, when the rest of the crew was obliged to quit the expedition boat in Jamaica because of emergencies at home, McKee rode out a hurricane alone and made it singlehanded in the 110 - foot boat to Grand Cayman, where he succeeded in hiring on a navigator.

His career highlights at S.I. include road trips in search of sports on the equator, the world's most dangerous sport and Roman gladiators as the first sports superstars, a lengthy meditation on Don King's hair, the second - ever descent of Africa's Zambezi River, a weighty essay on the 580 - pound sumo wrestler Konishiki, an investigation into the questionable around - the - world run by Robert Garside, a look inside the mind games at the 1987 world chess championship between Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov in Seville, Spain, three weeks in the Sahara covering the 2002 Paris - to - Dakar Rally, a trudge through Panama's Darien jungle retracing Vasco Núñez de Balboa's 1513 expedition, and a journey into the world of Jeopardy! His essay on George Steinbrenner and the New York Yankees» line of succession was called the «scoop of the year» in the 2008 Houghton - Mifflin collection The Best American Sports Writing.

I was part of another Everest expedition, in 1986, that attempted to reach the summit via the North Col (a saddle - shaped depression on the crest of a ridge).

Anderson, a native of Colorado who now lives in New Zealand, was one of the strongest climbers on that expedition; he once got to the 28,000 - foot mark on the West Ridge and once to 28,200, but because of a malfunctioning oxygen tank, he failed each time to make the summit at 29,028 feet.

In addition to the four climbers, our expedition included medical adviser Miriam Zieman and photographer Joe Mark Blackburn, both from the New York City area, who would support us at our advanced base camp on the Kangshung glacier at 17,800 feet.

On the Antarctic expedition in 1957 - 58, Hillary and his team of New Zealanders were originally told to lay supplies for British scientist Vivian Fuchs» expedition and then head back.

He broke it after skiing the bowls, when he fell during a climbing expedition on Mount Shasta in California.

He drove on, moving in his new Ford Expedition from a vast desert to mountains thick with aspen and spruce, his destination a rented town house where he would be spending the next four or five months.

Pat told us that her Jetboil stove has worked brilliantly for many years, on these expeditions and in - between.

They told my mother at the time that he'd probably turn up in 30 to 50 years, and, sure enough last month a guide found him on an expedition.»

And after a tough end to the season in which he was roundly booed by his own supporters, it is rumoured that Bale is ready to call time on his Spanish expedition to return to England with Manchester United in a swap deal.

I haven't been on Expedition Everest in a long time.

The Baby Trend Expedition LX Travel System is sturdy, on the grounds that the body is made with metal in an oval form.