Richard Wiese
| Richard Wiese | |
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| Born |
Richard Wiese July 13, 1959 Long Island, New York, United States |
| Occupation | Explorer, host, producer, author |
Richard Wiese (born July 13, 1959), an American explorer, is the author of the guidebook, Born to Explore: How to Be a Backyard Adventurer. In 2002 he was the youngest man to become president of the Explorers Club.
He is the host and executive producer of the Emmy® Award-winning television series Born to Explore with Richard Wiese, which debuted September 3, 2011 on ABC as part of Litton's Weekend Adventure.
Wiese was born in Long Island, New York. His father, Richard Wiese, Sr., was the first man to solo the Pacific Ocean in an aircraft. Richard's climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania at the age of 11. He attended St. Anthony's High School in Smithtown, New York, and then Brown University, graduating in 1982 with a Bachelor of Science in Geology and Biology. He also studied Applied Physiology at Columbia University and completed the USDA Graduate Program in Meteorology.
Wiese lives in Weston, Connecticut.
In early 2002, he became president of The Explorers Club - the youngest in the organization's history. During his four-year term, he worked in Mexico's Yucatán jungle placing satellite collars on jaguars. .He also climbed and sampled Tanzania's volcano Ol Doinyo Lengai .and participated in two expeditions to Antarctica to core glaciers for climatological studies..
During the same period, Wiese joined a medical expedition on Mount Everest. He also cross-country skied to the North Pole . and was a member of the 2004 Yeronisos Island expedition in Cyprus. .In addition, he led an expedition to bio-prospect for extremophiles and new life forms in Mount Kilimanjaro's Ngorongoro Crater, resulting in the discovery of 29 new life forms.. That expedition to Mount Kilimanjaro also involved placing the first weather station on its slopes, which has been crucial for tracking the effects of global warming.
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