World of Her Own: 24 Amazing Women Explorers and Adventurers

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x A WORLD OF HER OWN And it wasn’t until the year 2000 that the Explorers Club finally elected Faanya L Rose as its first woman president In 2009 explorer Lorie Karnath became the second woman to lead the club She took on the mission of actively honoring the club’s his tory while at the same time redefining the image of explorers In the early 1960s in Concord Massachusetts Lorie and her brothers frequently investigated the nearby woods They cap tured snakes frogs grasshoppers and other critters and brought them home to observe but not keep as pets All of the animals were released back into the wild Lorie’s parents Albert and Carole shared their children’s interest in nature and actively encouraged these backyard explorations Lorie said that starting early in her life her parents showed her and her siblings many amazing things the planet has to offer They encouraged their children to learn through experience More than 100 years earlier the famous naturalist Henry David Thoreau had lived nearby at Walden Pond The Karnath Lorie Karnath in Bhutan with rice paddies across the river Courtesy of Lorie Karnath