In 1992 he got his first shot, buying U.S. rights to the Raid Gauloises, an expedition-length adventure race.
In 1848, for example, Lt. Commodore William Francis Lynch, who described himself as "an earnest Christian and lover of adventure" and his party as "young, muscular native-born Americans, of sober habits," led a naval expedition the length of the Jordan River.
In 1885, Henry Tureman Allen of the U.S. Army led the first recorded expedition down the length of the Tanana River, charting the Chena River's mouth along the way.
He was captivated by the journals of a predecessor there: John Wesley Powell, the Union Army major who lost an arm at Shiloh and later led the first expedition to navigate the length of the Grand Canyon.
Expeditions varied in length (from the 72-day flight of the crew of EO-28 to the 437-day flight of Valeri Polyakov), but generally lasted around six months.
Following the Expedition from a few car lengths behind, he could make out two people inside.
He quickly distinguished himself in his work for the zoo, first with his skill in designing habitats for its bird population, and soon also with a series of research expeditions of increasing length, including an expedition around the world to document the world's pheasants.
In 1736 he led an expedition to Lapland to measure the length of a degree along the meridian.
Although moderate in height and length by contemporary standards, Expedition Everest was the first ride for Disney to have its trains travel both forward and backward.
Microbial diversity in the rocks was analyzed by denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis and sequencing (Expedition 304), and terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism, cloning and sequencing, and functional gene microarray analysis (Expedition 305).
