From Caving News:
Explorers Club to Award Caver Bill Steele the Citation of Merit
March 20, 2015 / New York, United States, North America
Bill Steele in Alaska. Photo by Aspen372/Wikimedia Commons
Legendary caver Bill Steele is to be honored at the upcoming 111th Explorers
Club Annual Dinner this Saturday, March 21st in New York City.
The event, the world’s largest gathering of pioneers of exploration in space,
in the oceans and on land, will be held at the American Museum of Natural
History.
Appointed a fellow member of the exclusive club in 1979, Steele will now be
presented with a Citation of Merit for his efforts exploring many of the
longest and deepest caves in the USA, Mexico, and China.
Bill is currently co-leading an official National Speleoelogical Society
project, dubbed Proyecto Espeleologico Sistema Huautla (PESH), to explore and
study Mexico’s Sistema Huautla, which in 2013 became the deepest cave in the
Western Hemisphere. The 2015 expedition begins next week and is expected to run
for nearly six weeks.
Besides Steele, prominent astrophysicist and cosmologist Neil deGrasse Tyson
, British explorer David Hempleman-Adams, prominent mountaineer Mandip Singh
Soin
will also be presented awards during the evening which will feature specialty
hors d’oeuvres prepared by famed “Bug Chef” David George Gordon, who will
highlight sustainable eating practices.
For those that can’t be there, the entire event will be broadcast live on the
Explorer’s Club website beginning at 6:00pm eastern time.
Julia G Germany
germa...@aol.com
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