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Human as people of this planet has a great desire for adventure. From the Moon to Mount Everest, the greatest adventure history has recorded that has been done by human.

1. Apollo 11 landing in the moon:

Apollo 11 crew faced a fatal risk to come out of the Earth. Machine failure could have left them stranded on the lunar surface or be forever lost in space. Solar radiation and heat can cook them alive. Failure setting space suits to make them run out of oxygen and suffocate. But as Neil Armstrong took the first steps on the lunar surface, all the risk is forgotten. 2.QUICK REACH SOUTH POLE

In 1911, Robert Scott (Britain) and Roald Amundsen (Norway) are competing to be the first

to reach the South Pole. One person will win, others will die. Amundsen is the winner, and Scout died because of starving. 3.Edmund Hillary Counquer Mount Everest:

On May 1953, Edmund Hillary, a New Zealand bee keeper turns into a mountain climber, became the first person to summit the highest mountain in the world. The height is 29,028 feet (8848 m) above sea level and he is succeed. Since then, hundreds of climbers to follow in his footsteps, but Hillary will forever be known as the first person to summit the world.

4. Charles Darwin's journey with H.M.S. Beagle

5-year journey Charles Darwin in HMS. Beagle has changed the face of modern science and our understanding of human existence. After stopping along the coast of South America, the Beagle explored the Galapagos Islands, Darwin saw that every part of the island there are identical species of finches vary in size and structure. From these observations and Darwin hit upon his theory of

natural selection, the process of adaptive evolution of organisms with certain characteristics tend to survive and pass on traits to their offspring.

5. Charles Lindbergh's flight across the Atlantic

Lindbergh flew through darkness, fog and sleet, the plane was located at an altitude of only 10 ft (3 m) above the cold Atlantic ocean. When he landed in Paris, 33 hours and 30 minutes after take off, Lindbergh was greeted by 150,000 people, who celebrate him as the first to fly nonstop across the Atlantic.

6. Yuri Gagarin circled the Earth's orbit

The first man in space was Soviet cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin, orbiting the planet Earth on 12 April 1961,. Gagarin was just 27 years old. She made a full circle around the earth, flying more than 110 miles (177 km) above the planet.

7.Robert Peary reach North Pole:

Explorers have tried to reach the North Pole by ship, train and balloon snow, but it all fell down dead in his efforts. On April 1909, the U.S. Navy engineer, Robert Peary, who had failed to reach the North Pole once, set out to try again. After a 37-day winter trip on the ice, Peary and his team planted the American flag in the north of the earth.

8.Pelayaran Kon-Tiki:

In 1947, the Norwegian anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl, to build a primitive raft made of wood tied together by ropes, and set out from Callao, Peru, for a trip on the ocean Pacific. Heyerdahl and five crew drove the Kon-Tiki in an emergency to an amazing 101 days, sailing 4300 miles (6920 km) through the storm and ferocious shark before it stranded on a reef in Polynesia. Heyerdahl's book about his adventures became an international best seller.

9.Albert Hofmann melakukan "LSD Trip":

Swiss scientist Albert Hofmann took an unexpected trip, journey of mind, in April 1943 when he accidentally swallowed a chemical invention, lysergic acid diethylamide, LSD through his fingertips. Within an hour, Hoffman sees "a stream of fantastic pictures, extraordinary shapes with the intense, kaleidoscopic color games". Hofmann, excited about the potential for a powerful psychotropic substances, which he imagined as a psychiatric drug that could cure soul. But Hofmann is a

mental adventure without moving the first place in the world, among many millions of miles of other physical travel. 10. Captain Matthew Webb swam across the English Channel:

On August 25, 1875, Captain Matthew Webb, 27 years old, swam across the English Channel. He struggled against the tide and stingrays for nearly 22 hours, tormented as far as 39 miles (63 km). Finally, he landed near Calais, tired but triumphant. In the next century, the record has been

duplicated by other swimmers more than 1000 times and the time has been cut more than half, but still there are no swimmers in the world that has captured the imagination like Matthew Webb.