How were the Giza Pyramids built? Archeologist and 2016 National Geographic emerging explorer Yukinori Kawae is trying to figure this out. As a young boy Kawae was fascinated by the Egyptian pyramids, and with his parent's permission moved to Egypt after high school because he wanted to see the...
Published 10/21/16
In 2015, Wasfia Nazreen, a 2016 National Geographic emerging explorer, became the first Bangladeshi to summit the highest peak on each of the seven continents, a mountaineering feat known as climbing the seven summits. As a girl Nazreen struggled with her society's expectations of how a woman...
Published 10/17/16