1. Richard Wiese was born on July 13,1959 and is an American explorer, the serving President of The Explorers Club, and Executive Producer and Host of the multiple Emmy Award-winning ABC and PBS program, Born to Explore.
19 Facts About Richard Wiese
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Richard Wiese attended St Anthony's High School in Smithtown NY, and then Brown University.
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Richard Wiese studied Applied Physiology at Columbia University and completed the USDA Graduate Program in Meteorology.
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Richard Wiese has worked in Mexico's Yucatan jungle, placing satellite collars on jaguars.
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Richard Wiese climbed and recovered samples from Tanzania's volcano Ol Doinyo Lengai, and participated in two expeditions to Antarctica to core glaciers for climatological studies.
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Richard Wiese skied cross-country to the North Pole, and was a member of a 2004 expedition to Yeronisos island in Cyprus, which consisted of an archaeological dig to find the birth temple of Caesarion, son of Cleopatra and Julius Caesar.
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In 2020, Richard Wiese traveled to the sub-arctic territory of the Yukon in Canada with HRH Prince Albert of Monaco to retrace the last 42-kilometre leg of the 1934 expedition to Telegraph Creek by his grandfather.
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In 2002, Richard Wiese was elected as the youngest club president in the organization's history and has been elected president to more terms than any other president in its 118-year history.
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Richard Wiese is the founder of The Explorers Club 50 - "Fifty people who are changing the world, that the world needs to know about", as well as the organization's first Diversity and Inclusion program.
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Richard Wiese was invited and spoke at the United Nations on Global Climate change in 2019.
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Richard Wiese climbed and sampled Tanzania's volcano Ol Doinyo Lengai and participated in two expeditions to Antarctica to core glaciers for climatological studies.
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In 2012, Richard Wiese won the Cronkite Award for Excellence in Exploration and Journalism and the series received a Daytime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Children's Series.
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From 2018 to 2019, Richard Wiese hosted 38 episodes of Weekend With Yankee on PBS's Create.
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Richard Wiese appeared in two feature films: in 1981, in a brief scene with Brooke Shields in Endless Love and in 1986, as 'Chris' in Club Paradise.
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Richard Wiese was host of Exploration with Richard Wiese, a TV series that was syndicated in the US and distributed internationally.
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Richard Wiese hosted Hell on Earth, which aired on Discovery in the US and BBC in the UK.
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Richard Wiese hosted NOW in London with Brian Cox.
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Richard Wiese occasionally appeared in various skits on Saturday Night Live in the 1980s.
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Richard Wiese is the author of the guidebook, Born to Explore: How to Be a Backyard Adventurer, published by Harper in 2009.