Secret club for adventurers

Founded in 1904, The Explorers club in New York (USA) is a place that regularly welcomes celebrities such as Neil Armstrong, James Cameron and the late US President.

Club for adventurers

The Explorers Club is located on Street 70, Manhattan, near the central park of New York, USA.Jacobean-style facade helps visitors easily recognize this building.

The club's headquarters were once home to Stephen C. Clark, the heir to the Singer sewing machine group and also the founder of the building honoring baseball players.Later, writer Lowell Thomas bought the house and gave it to the club.

The front living room is decorated with European furniture from the 15-16th century.The tea table was made from wooden planks on the USC & GS Explorer survey and research vessel, one of the few remaining ships after the Pearl Harbor battle in 1941.

This chair belongs to Hieu Other Man (wife of Prussian Emperor), the last queen of the feudal regime in China.

The club kept many artifacts from the expedition to the Arctic in 1909 by Robert Peary, including mittens made from seal skin of Matthew Henson, Peary's vice-captain and also the first African-American. First joined The Explorers in 1937. This is bottled milk used during the trip.

The Norwegian explorer, Thor Heyerdahl, used this globe to plan an expedition on wooden rafts from Peru to Polynesia.Heyerdahl received $ 125,000 in support from club members.

Heyerdahl wanted to prove that Aboriginal people could cross the Pacific before Europeans appeared and settled in Polynesian islands.His team landed after a 101-day trip, over 6,900 kilometers.This is a sheet in Heyerdahl's diary the day they found the land.

This is one of the two main event rooms, formerly Clarke's library.The ceiling was taken from a monastery in Italy.

Adolphus W. Greely was the first president of The Explorers.The picture depicts Greely's 1881 trip to the North Pole, in which the boat was trapped for years by snow and ice (18 of the 24 members of the group died before they were rescued in 1884).There are rumors that some members are forced to eat dead people haunting Greely.

This stuffed polar bear is a guest artifact, the gift of Rudolph Valentino, who took down the animal in the Chukchi Sea in 1969.

The porch outside the main event room has a beautiful open design.This railing was imported from a 15th-century French monastery in the Pyrenees.

The average age of more than 3,000 members is 65. Not all scientists, climbers or astronauts, many members are simply rich travel enthusiasts.

Clark Room is the club's main meeting room.To be accepted into The Explorers, you must have scientific studies or a referral from a member.

These flags are very important in the tradition of the club.The members will bring the flag during the trip, after registering the goal and destination.The left flag is the first draft, on the right is the second draft, brought with Roy Chapman Andrews (the prototype of Indiana Jones) on a trip across the Gobi desert in 1925.

The world's explorers brought this flag to Mount Everest, the Arctic, Antarctica and even the moon.The Explorers has a close relationship with NASA.Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin brought small club flags to the moon.The flag also appeared in many of Apollo's missions.

This flag went through 19 expeditions, to the highest point of the world (Everest) and the lowest point (Challenger Deep).

The relics of past expeditions are displayed throughout the building.Robert Peary and Matthew Henson pulled this huge sled during the Arctic expedition.

The Explorers saves all members' records and adventures of each flag.This is the profile of Carl Akeley, the ancestor of the modern industry.

This is the registration application of the late President Teddy Roosevelt.

The club's archive has a large number of photos of expeditions.In the photo, the late President Teddy Roosevelt and his son, Kermit (also a club member), are taking a hunting trip in Africa.Currently, the club tends to turn to environmental or animal conservation activities.