A 1954 expedition funded by the Daily Mail set out to find what?
"and declining because of habitat loss, fragmentation, poaching, and bear-baiting. ""Dzu-Teh,"" a Nepalese term, has also been associated with the legend of the Yeti, or Abominable Snowman, with which it has been sometimes confused or mistaken. During the Daily Mail Abominable Snowman Expedition of 1954, Tom Stobart encountered a ""Dzu-Teh"". This is recounted by Ralph Izzard, the ""Daily Mail"" correspondent on the expedition, in his book ""The Abominable Snowman Adventure"". The report was also printed in the Daily Mail expedition dispatches on 7 May 1954. Cryptozoologist George Eberhart says that the problem is the result of conflating the Dzu-Teh with"
"Yeti that would ""not make him a monster but put a twist on it that really he was better than us"". He was influenced by numerous reports of the Yeti that had appeared in the news at the time, including discoveries of footprints by explorer Eric Shipton in 1951 and by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay on the first complete ascent of Mount Everest in 1953. In particular, he was influenced by an unsuccessful 1954 expedition to find the Yeti sponsored by the ""Daily Mail"" newspaper. The play starred Stanley Baker as Tom Friend and Peter Cushing as John Rollason"
"of time. In February 1954, a two-week expedition under the auspices of the National Speleological Society was organized at the invitation of Austin: this expedition became known as C-3, or the Collins Crystal Cave Expedition. The C-3 expedition drew public interest, first from a photo essay published by Robert Halmi in the July 1954 issue of True Magazine and later from the publication of a double first-person account of the expedition, ""The Caves Beyond: The Story of the Collins Crystal Cave Expedition"" by Joe Lawrence, Jr. (then president of the National Speleological Society) and Roger Brucker. The expedition proved conclusively"
"which Burton regarded as still unsettled. A very public quarrel ensued, which not only sparked a great deal of intense debate within the scientific community of the day, but also much interest by other explorers keen to either confirm or refute Speke's discovery. In the late 1860s, the famous British explorer and missionary David Livingstone failed in his attempt to verify Speke's discovery, instead pushing too far west and entering the River Congo system instead. Ultimately, the Welsh-American explorer Henry Morton Stanley, on an expedition funded by the ""New York Herald"" newspaper, confirmed the truth of Speke's discovery, circumnavigating the"
"voluntary liquidation in 1910. In 1913, a Brisbane newspaper, ""The Daily Mail"", suspected its competitor ""The Daily Standard"" was copying its news stories. So the ""Daily Mail"" published a hoax article claiming that the ""Waratah"" had been discovered in Antarctica. The ""Daily Standard"" also published the story and added a statement from the harbourmaster. There is a plaque in the Parish Church at Buckland Filleigh, Devon, England, commemorating Col. Percival John Browne. He was returning to England on the ""Waratah"", from his sheep farm in Mount Gambier, South Australia. His family home was Buckland House. A plaque to the memory"
"eleventh tablet of the ""Epic of Gilgamesh"", one of the oldest known works of literature. The following January, Edwin Arnold, the editor of ""The Daily Telegraph"", arranged for Smith to go to Nineveh at the expense of that newspaper and carry out excavations with a view to finding the missing fragments of the Flood story. This journey resulted not only in the discovery of some missing tablets, but also of fragments that recorded the succession and duration of the Babylonian dynasties. In November 1873 Smith again left England for Nineveh for a second expedition, this time at the expense of"
"to the Frenchman who had made the greatest contribution to science. Three days later, on 19 July, he informed the ""Daily Mail"" of his intention to make an attempt to win the thousand-pound prize offered by the paper for a successful crossing of the English Channel in a heavier-than-air aircraft. The ""Daily Mail"" prize was first announced in October 1908, with a prize of £500 being offered for a flight made before the end of the year. When 1908 passed with no serious attempt being made, the prize money was doubled to £1,000 and the offer extended to the end"
"Stacey described in his journal as ""a wonderful canyon four thousand feet deep. Everyone (in the party) admitted that he never before saw anything to match or equal this astonishing natural curiosity."" A U.S. War Department expedition led by Lt. Joseph Ives was launched in 1857 to investigate the area's potential for natural resources, to find railroad routes to the west coast, and assess the feasibility of an up-river navigation route from the Gulf of California. The group traveled in a stern wheeler steamboat named ""Explorer"". After two months and 350 miles (560 km) of difficult navigation, his party reached"
"scientific fold and made him a major figure in it. With the money that now poured in Louis undertook the famous expeditions of 1948 and beyond at Rusinga Island in Lake Victoria, where Mary discovered the most complete Proconsul fossil up to that time. Charles Watson Boise donated money for a boat to be used for transport on Lake Victoria, ""The Miocene Lady"". Its skipper, Hassan Salimu, was later to deliver Jane Goodall to Gombe. Philip Leakey was born in 1949. In 1950, Louis was awarded an honorary doctorate by Oxford University. While the Leakeys were at Lake Victoria, the"
"Austin Expedition of 1854 The Austin expedition of 1854 was an expedition of exploration undertaken in Western Australia by Robert Austin in 1854. Members of Austin's party comprised John Hardey, Kenneth Brown, J.T. Fraser (artist), Thomas Whitfield, James Guerin, Richard Buck, J. Edwards, W. Cant, Charles Farmer, and J. Woodward; and aboriginals Narryer, Wambinning, Wooddang and Souper. The expedition left Mumberkine, north of Northam, on 10 July 1854, exploring the large lakes northeast of Northam known as ""Cow-Cowing"", before heading north through the interior, where Mount Magnet was discovered and named. They intended to reach the coast at Shark Bay,"
"voyage from Liverpool to New York City, which began 23 January 1856. ""Pacific""s fate remains a mystery to the present day. A message in a bottle found on the remote island of Uist within the Hebrides (a widespread archipelago off the west coast of mainland Scotland) in 1861 declared her sunk by icebergs. In 1991, wreckage located in the Irish Sea off the coast of Wales was claimed, without corroboration, as being the SS ""Pacific"". For several decades prior to the 1840s, American sailing ships had dominated the transatlantic routes between Europe and the United States. With the coming of"
"of which were identifiable. However, there were many large footprints which could not be identified. These flattened footprint-like indentations were attributed to erosion and subsequent widening of the original footprint by wind and particles. On 19 March 1954, the ""Daily Mail"" printed an article which described expedition teams obtaining hair specimens from what was alleged to be a Yeti scalp found in the Pangboche monastery. The hairs were black to dark brown in colour in dim light, and fox red in sunlight. The hair was analysed by Professor Frederic Wood Jones, an expert in human and comparative anatomy. During the"
"research. The stern section, which had previously received relatively little attention from explorers, was specifically targeted for analysis. The microbial colonies aboard ""Titanic"" were also a key focus of investigation. The second expedition, from 27 May – 12 June 2004, saw the return of Robert Ballard to ""Titanic"" nearly 20 years after he discovered it. The expedition spent 11 days on the wreck, carrying out high-resolution mapping using video and stereoscopic still images. 2005 saw two expeditions to the ""Titanic"". James Cameron returned for the third and last time to film ""Last Mysteries of the Titanic"". Another expedition searched for"
"to be covered with seaside villas. During the 20th century, an entrepreneur, Mr. Létendart from Calais, extracted sand and gravel from the dunes to the west of Wissant, in the bed of the ancient lagoon. The huge excavations now form lakes and a nature reserve. At the time of the exploitation of these gravel pits, the bones of a complete mammoth with its tusks were discovered by four workers. In July 1909 Wissant stood at the centre of worldwide focus. Three contenders for the £1,000 Northcliffe prize offered by the Daily Mail for the first heavier-than-air craft to cross the"
"Oxford and Cambridge Far Eastern Expedition The Oxford and Cambridge Far Eastern Expedition was a 1955–6 journey undertaken by six Oxford & Cambridge university students in two Land Rover Series I Station Wagons from London to Singapore. The Expedition was inspired by the earlier 1954 Oxford and Cambridge Trans-Africa Expedition, which was developed and planned by Adrian Cowell. The University expedition was primarily sponsored by Land Rover, who provided the vehicles, but was also sponsored by a total of more than 80 other third parties through both loaned and donated equipment and supplies, ranging from whiskey to collapsible buckets, as"
"north coast. In 1857 the Philosophical Institute formed an ""Exploration Committee"" with the aim of investigating the practicability of fitting out an exploring expedition. While interest in inland exploration was strong in the neighbouring colonies of New South Wales and South Australia, in Victoria enthusiasm was limited. Even the anonymous donation of £1,000 (later discovered to be from Ambrose Kyte) to the ""Fund Raising Committee"" of the Royal Society failed to generate much interest and it was 1860 before sufficient money was raised and the expedition was assembled. The Exploration Committee called for offers of interest for a leader for"
"of their daily activities. The result was the ""Adelie Blizzard"" which had five issues between April and October in 1913. They were never officially published for the general public until almost 100 years had passed when a facsimile edition was produced. As the expedition commander Douglas Mawson was himself a geologist, the examination of the accessible (i.e., not covered by ice) rock formations of Wilkes Land was a key feature of the expedition. The expedition is noted for having achieved the first discovery of a meteorite, a chondrite, 30 km west of Cape Denison. Over the following century a trove"
"the paper financed Henry Morton Stanley's expeditions into Africa to find David Livingstone, where they met on November 10, 1871. The paper also supported Stanley's trans-Africa exploration, and in 1879 supported the ill-fated expedition of George W. DeLong to the arctic region. In 1874, the ""Herald"" ran the infamous New York Zoo hoax, where the front page of the newspaper was devoted entirely to a fabricated story of wild animals getting loose at the Central Park Zoo and attacking numerous people. On October 4, 1887, Bennett Jr. sent Julius Chambers to Paris, France to launch a European edition. Bennett himself"
"but have been consumed by other organisms. ""Titanic"" sank in 1912, when she collided with an iceberg during her maiden voyage. Numerous expeditions tried using sonar to map the sea bed in the hope of finding it, but were unsuccessful. In 1985, the wreck was finally located by a joint French–American expedition led by Jean-Louis Michel of IFREMER and Robert Ballard of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. The wreck has been the focus of intense interest and has been visited by numerous expeditions. Controversial salvage operations have recovered thousands of items, which have been conserved and put on public display."
"British explorer Sir Allan William Young on his steam yacht on an expedition to try to find the Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The expedition got as far as Peel Sound in the Canadian Arctic before it met pack ice and was forced to return. In 1876 MacGahan quarreled with James Gordon Bennett Jr., the publisher of the New York ""Herald"", and left the newspaper. He was invited by his friend, Eugene Schuyler, the American Consul-General in Constantinople, to investigate reports of large-scale atrocities committed by the Turkish Army following the failure of an attempted uprising by"
"and his family. The Book of Mormon says that Lehi's group left from Jerusalem in approximately 600 B.C., traveled through the wilderness to the place called Bountiful, and there built a ship in which they sailed to their promised land of America. This expedition was partly funded by the LDS Church. The results of Hilton's discoveries were first published in the ""Ensign"" in the September and October 1976 editions. Hilton wrote two books on this subject, ""In Search of the Lehi's Trail"" and ""Discovering Lehi"". His wife, Hope, was co-author of each book. In 2008, Hilton published a DVD entitled"
"to the UK. The location is in Great Charles Street in Birmingham near the Council House. The expedition was commemorated in a 2007 5-stamp set issued by New Zealand Post. The stamps highlight air transport (the 50c), the role of the sledge ($1.00); dog teams ($1.50), mechanized tractors caching supplies ($2.00), and HMNZS Endeavour ($2.50) which carried the Ross Sea support party and equipment. A small image of a modified Ferguson TE20 tractor from the expedition is also found on the New Zealand five dollar note, the design of which features Sir Edmund Hillary. Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition The 1955–58 Commonwealth"
"Burma. The group obtained insurance for ""Jumbo"" from Lloyd's of London and further sponsorship from ""Life"" magazine, which later published a 7-page photo report. The expedition started in late July 1959 in Montmelian, France. It followed the valley of the Arc river and then ascended towards the Col de Clapier. However, the route up to the pass had become narrowed and dangerous due to rockfall. The group retracted down into the valley and crossed the Col du Mont Cenis, another pass suggested for Hannibal's route by none less than French emperor Napoleon. After 10 days of travel, the expedition successfully"
"which he considered a more likely way to make money than chasing after the gold himself. In 1854, Frederick Catherwood was a passenger aboard the steamship ""Arctic"", making a crossing of the Atlantic Ocean from Liverpool to New York. On 27 September in conditions of poor visibility, the ""Arctic"" collided with the French steamer ""Vesta"", and sank with much loss of life, including Catherwood. Mysteriously Catherwood's name was left off the official casualty lists for weeks until a concerted effort by his friends and colleagues resulted in a belated inclusion of a single line in the ""New York Herald Tribune"","
"had been noted as being rarely visited. After announcing their intentions in ""The Times"", they started off being funded by individuals such as the Archbishop of Canterbury. the poet Robert Browning and Sir Erasmus Wilson. Wilson, in particular, showed enough interest to pledge £500 to the Egypt Exploration Fund. This marked the start of the Egypt Exploration Society. The first excavator of the Egypt Exploration Fund was Edouard Naville, a Swiss Egyptologist and Biblical scholar. In January 1883, Naville set out for Tell el-Maskhuta. His goal was to find the route of the Biblical exodus as the Fund had decided"
"Nepal, with a total weight of ten thousand pounds of baggage. 1953 British Mount Everest expedition The 1953 British Mount Everest expedition was the ninth mountaineering expedition to attempt the first ascent of Mount Everest, and the first confirmed to have succeeded when Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the summit on Friday, 1953. Led by Colonel John Hunt, it was organised and financed by the Joint Himalayan Committee. News of the expedition's success reached London in time to be released on the morning of Queen Elizabeth II's coronation, Identified as the highest mountain in the world during the 1850s,"
"climber. They reached the summit at 11:30 local time on 29 May 1953 via the South Col route. At the time, both acknowledged it as a team effort by the whole expedition, but Tenzing revealed a few years later that Hillary had put his foot on the summit first. They paused at the summit to take photographs and buried a few sweets and a small cross in the snow before descending. News of the expedition's success reached London on the morning of Queen Elizabeth II's coronation, 2 June. A few days later, the Queen gave orders that Hunt (a Briton)"
"since Burton was not a Catholic and was not wealthy, although in time the relationship became tolerated. John Hanning Speke again accompanied him and on 27 June 1857, they set out from the east coast of Africa heading west in search of the lake or lakes. They were helped greatly by the Omani Arabs who lived and traded in the region. They followed the traditional caravan routes, hiring professional porters and guides who had been making similar treks for years. From the start, the outward journey was beset with problems such as recruiting reliable bearers and the theft of equipment"
"Hillary would later discount Yeti reports as unreliable. In his first autobiography Tenzing said that he believed the Yeti was a large ape, and although he had never seen it himself his father had seen one twice, but in his second autobiography he said he had become much more sceptical about its existence. During the ""Daily Mail"" Snowman Expedition of 1954, the mountaineering leader John Angelo Jackson made the first trek from Everest to Kanchenjunga in the course of which he photographed symbolic paintings of the Yeti at Tengboche gompa. Jackson tracked and photographed many footprints in the snow, most"
"on the ocean's depth and extent and now bears the vessel's name, the Challenger Deep. Findings from the ""Challenger"" expedition continued to be published until 1895, 19 years after the completion of its journey. The report contained 50 volumes and was over 29,500 pages in length. Specimens brought back by ""Challenger"" were distributed to the world's foremost experts for examination, which greatly increased the expenses and time required to finalize the report. The report and specimens are currently held at the British Natural History Museum and the report has been made available online. Some specimens, many of which were the"
"were healthy again. James Cook had made great progress against the disease, but other British captains, such as George Vancouver, found his accomplishment difficult to replicate. It had been known since the mid-18th century that citrus fruit was effective, but for decades it was impractical to store fruit or fruit juice for long periods on ships without losing the necessary ascorbic acid. Spain's large empire and many ports of call made it easier to acquire fresh fruit.""The City Gazette and Daily Advertiser"" (Charleston, South Carolina), 19 July 1797, carried a report of the expedition: VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY: The following particulars"
"Oxford, to study geology. He graduated in 1966, and found work with Falconbridge of Africa, a Canadian mining company. His first assignment was to work as a field geologist searching for copper deposits in Uganda. While on assignment in Uganda, Winchester happened upon a copy of James Morris' ""Coronation Everest"", an account of the 1953 expedition that led to the first successful ascent of Mount Everest. The book instilled in Winchester the desire to be a writer, so he wrote to Morris, seeking career advice. Morris urged Winchester to give up geology the very day he received the letter, and"
"of five dollars per set. The stamps were unwelcome at the time due to the high price Hedin was selling them at, but years later became valuable treasures among collectors. The first part of the expedition, from 1927 to 1932, led from Beijing via Baotou to Mongolia, over the Gobi Desert, through Xinjiang to Ürümqi, and into the northern and eastern parts of the Tarim Basin. The expedition had a wealth of scientific results which are being published up to the present time. For example, the discovery of specific deposits of iron, manganese, oil, coal and gold reserves was of"