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The Fire Inside Premiere - LA

September 17, 2021 - Florida, USA - Inspiration4 Launch. Jared Isaacman, Hayley Arceneaux, Chris Sembroski, Dr. Sian Proctor. Inspiration4 is the world's first all-civilian mission to orbit. The mission will be commanded by Jared Isaacman, the 38-year-old founder and Chief Executive Officer of Shift4 Payments and an accomplished pilot and adventurer. Named in recognition of the four-person crew that will raise awareness and funds for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, this milestone represents a new era for human spaceflight and exploration. (Credit Image: © Inspiration4/ZUMA Press Wire Service/ZUMAPRESS.com)

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The Fire Inside Premiere - LA

September 11, 2021 - USA - Jared Isaacman, Hayley Arceneaux, Chris Sembroski, Dr. Sian Proctor. Inspiration4 is the world's first all-civilian mission to orbit. The mission will be commanded by Jared Isaacman, the 38-year-old founder and Chief Executive Officer of Shift4 Payments and an accomplished pilot and adventurer. Named in recognition of the four-person crew that will raise awareness and funds for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, this milestone represents a new era for human spaceflight and exploration. (Credit Image: © Inspiration4/ZUMA Press Wire Service/ZUMAPRESS.com)

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Japan's record-breaking sailor Horie given U.S. award

Japanese ocean adventurer Kenichi Horie, the world's oldest person to make a solo, nonstop yacht voyage across the Pacific at age 83 in 2022, speaks to the press in New York on March 4, 2023 before receiving the Blue Water Medal, a prestigious sailing award from the Cruising Club of America.

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Japan's record-breaking sailor Horie given U.S. award

Japanese ocean adventurer Kenichi Horie, the world's oldest person to make a solo, nonstop yacht voyage across the Pacific at age 83 in 2022, speaks to the press in New York on March 4, 2023 before receiving the Blue Water Medal, a prestigious sailing award from the Cruising Club of America.

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Uemura Naomi Award

Mountain guide Ryota Nomura, 28, poses for a photo in Tokyo on Feb. 6, 2023, as he receives the 2022 Uemura Naomi Award for traveling through the dividing ridge on the northernmost Japanese main island of Hokkaido solo. In the background is an image of the late adventurer Uemura.

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Japanese ocean adventurer Kenichi Horie

Japanese ocean adventurer Kenichi Horie is pictured in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture, on Dec. 5, 2022. Horie became the world's oldest person to make a solo, nonstop voyage across the Pacific on a yacht at age 83 in 2022.

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Marine adventurer Yahata gets Faust AG award

TOKYO, Japan - Marine adventurer Satoru Yahata speaks in an interview in December 2014. Yahata, who has journeyed by kayak to the Pacific islands and Japanese fishing villages, received the 2014 Adventurer of the Year award from Faust Adventurers' Guild the same month.

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Tokyo wins 2020 Olympic bid

TOKYO, Japan - Adventurer Yuichiro Miura (far R), the oldest person to scale Mt. Everest, and other people involved in Tokyo's bid to host the 2020 Summer Olympics celebrate in Tokyo on Sept. 8, 2013, after Tokyo was chosen as the host city at the International Olympic Committee's general session in Buenos Aires, beating Istanbul and Madrid.

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Japanese adventurer Miura

HIROSAKI, Japan - Japanese adventurer Yuichiro Miura, who in May 2013 became the oldest person in the world to scale Mt. Everest at the age of 80, speaks in an interview with Kyodo News in Hirosaki, Aomori Prefecture, on July 28, 2013.

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Japanese adventurer Miura

HIROSAKI, Japan - Japanese adventurer Yuichiro Miura, who in May 2013 became the oldest person in the world to scale Mt. Everest at the age of 80, speaks in an interview with Kyodo News in Hirosaki, Aomori Prefecture, on July 28, 2013.

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Japanese adventurer Miura

HIROSAKI, Japan - Photo shows Japanese adventurer Yuichiro Miura in Hirosaki, Aomori Prefecture, on July 28, 2013. Miura became the world's oldest person to scale Mt. Everest at the age of 80 on May 23, 2013.

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Japanese adventurer Miura

HIROSAKI, Japan - Japanese adventurer Yuichiro Miura, who in May 2013 became the oldest person in the world to scale Mt. Everest at the age of 80, speaks in an interview with Kyodo News in Hirosaki, Aomori Prefecture, on July 28, 2013.

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Cyclist completes around the world trip

YONAGO, Japan - Adventurer Akira Kato returns to his hometown in Yonago, Tottori Prefecture, western Japan, on June 14, 2013, completing his round-the-world trip by bike that took him a total of 10 years to complete.

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Cyclist completes around the world trip

YONAGO, Japan - Adventurer Akira Kato returns to his hometown in Yonago, Tottori Prefecture, western Japan, on June 14, 2013, completing his round-the-world trip by bike that took him a total of 10 years to complete.

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Arctic explorer Yamazaki

RESOLUTE, Canada - Japanese adventurer Tetsuhide Yamazaki drills in sea ice to measure its thickness off Resolute, Canada, in the Arctic on Feb. 26, 2013. (Photo by Rintaro Sawano)

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Arctic explorer Yamazaki

RESOLUTE, Canada - Japanese adventurer Tetsuhide Yamazaki rides a dog sled on sea ice off Resolute, Canada, in the Arctic on Feb. 22, 2013. (Photo by Rintaro Sawano)

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Japanese seeks to climb Mt. Everest at 80

TOKYO, Japan - Yuichiro Miura, an 80-year-old Japanese adventurer, speaks during a press conference in Tokyo on March 22, 2013. Miura vowed to give his all to reach the summit of Mt. Everest, which would make him the oldest person to conquer the world's highest peak.

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Japanese seeks to climb Mt. Everest at 80

TOKYO, Japan - Yuichiro Miura, an 80-year-old Japanese adventurer, speaks during a press conference in Tokyo on March 22, 2013. Miura vowed to give his all to reach the summit of Mt. Everest, which would make him the oldest person to conquer the world's highest peak.

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Thanking Britons for help to quake-hit Japan

LONDON, Britain - Marine adventurer Chikara Nakamura (L), 60, and his brother Hidetaka, 63, who is a seaman, hold letters of thanks written by local government chiefs in northeastern Japan hit by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami inside the London city office on July 11, 2012. The brothers met with Deputy Mayor of London Victoria Borwick after crossing the Straits of Dover by sea kayak in a gesture of gratitude for the help offered by British citizens to the victims of the disaster.

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British woman adventurer returns safe

SENDAI, Japan - British adventurer Sarah Outen (C) is met by friends at Shiogama port in Miyagi Prefecture on June 10, 2012, following her arrival on a Japan Coast Guard vessel after being rescued during her solo rowing voyage across the Pacific Ocean.

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British woman adventurer confirmed safe after SOS call

SENDAI, Japan - British adventurer Sarah Outen sets out for Vancouver from a port in Choshi, Chiba Prefecture, on May 13, 2012, in her boat Gulliver. The Japan Coast Guard said on June 7 it had confirmed Outen is safe after receiving an SOS call from her during her solo rowing voyage from the east cost of Japan to the west coast of Canada.

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British woman departs for solo boat journey across Pacific

CHOSHI, Japan - British adventurer Sarah Outen leaves Choshi in Chiba Prefecture, east of Tokyo, on May 13, 2012, for a solo journey across the Pacific aboard her rowing boat Gulliver. Outen is on a solo around-the-world human-powered trip from Britain.

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Adventurer gives up solo trek to North Pole

TOKYO, Japan - Undated file photo shows Yasunaga Ogita, a Japanese adventurer. He gave up his solo and unassisted trek on foot across about 800 kilometers of Arctic ice to the North Pole due to worsening weather conditions, his support office said March 16, 2012.

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Japanese adventurer to start for solo trek to North Pole

ASAHIKAWA, Japan - Japanese adventurer Yasunaga Ogita poses in Asahikawa, Hokkaido, northern Japan, on Jan. 25, 2012. In March 2012, Ogita plans to begin an unassisted solo trek of about 800 kilometers across Arctic ice from Ward Hunt Island in northern Canada to the North Pole.

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Alpinist Kuriaki wins adventurer's award

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese alpinist Masatoshi Kuriaki speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 16, 2011. He received the Naomi Uemura adventure prize from the government of the city of Toyooka, Hyogo Prefecture. In the background is an image of the late adventurer Uemura.

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World's 1st manned solar-powered night flight lands

PAYERNE, Switzerland - The Solar-Impulse lands at Payerne military air base in western Switzerland on the morning of July 8, 2010, some 26 hours after its departure from the same airport. The brainchild of famed Swiss adventurer Bertrand Piccard made the first successful nighttime flight of an entirely solar-powered aircraft operated by a human pilot.

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Adventurer Horie lands after 7,800-km voyage on wave-propelled boat

NISHINOMIYA, Japan - Japanese adventurer Kenichi Horie, 69, waves flower bouquets presented by children July 6 as he steps ashore at a harbor in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture, after completing a 112-day, 7,800-kilometer voyage across the Pacific from Hawaii in the Suntory Mermaid II, a boat propelled by wave power.

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Adventurer Horie lands after 7,800-km voyage on wave-propelled boat

NISHINOMIYA, Japan - Japanese adventurer Kenichi Horie, 69, receives flower bouquets from children July 6 as he steps ashore at a harbor in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture, after completing a 112-day, 7,800-kilometer voyage across the Pacific from Hawaii in the Suntory Mermaid II, a boat propelled by wave power.

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Horie arrives in Japan from Hawaii on wave-propelled boat

WAKAYAMA, Japan - Japanese adventurer Kenichi Horie, 69, speaks to reporters off Yura, Wakayama Prefecture, on July 5, a day after arriving in Japan to achieve his goal of crossing the Pacific on an unprecedented voyage in the Suntory Mermaid II, a boat propelled only by the power of waves.

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Japanese adventurer takes children's paintings to China by canoe

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - Seen off by well-wishers, Japanese adventurer Chikara Nakamura heads out to sea on a solo trip to China by canoe from Minami-Satsuma, Kagoshima Prefecture on May 25. Nakamura, 56, is carrying a collection of children's paintings for display at a Japanese-Chinese exhibition at the museum in Beijing's Forbidden City, an event organized to mark the Beijing Summer Olympics. Nakamura says he plans to row to China's Qingdao city via South Korea's Jeju island, a 1,400-km trip that is expected to take a month, and then travel on to Beijing by train.

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Adventurer Horie leaves Hawaii on wave-propelled boat

HONOLULU, United States - Japanese adventurer Kenichi Horie waves before he leaves Honolulu, Hawaii, on March 16 for Japan, embarking on an unprecedented voyage in a boat propelled only by the power of waves. The Suntory Mermaid II -- 9.5 meters long, 3.5 meters wide and weighing 3 tons -- is made of recycled aluminum and is equipped with a solar powered battery for the navigation lights and other devices.

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Frenchman ends trans-Pacific voyage 60 km short of goal

COOS BAY, United States - French adventurer Emmanuel Coindre waves on his boat, the Jaeger LeCoultre, at Coos Bay, Oregon, on Nov. 1 after ending a solo nonstop rowboat voyage across the Pacific Ocean. Coindre, who set out from Japan on June 24, terminated his voyage in the sea about 60 kilometers off Oregon because of bad weather.

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(2)Horie completes 2nd solo sail voyage around globe

KOBE, Japan - Japanese adventurer Kenichi Horie waves at his supporters on returning to a yacht harbor in Nishinomiya from an eight-month nonstop solo voyage around the world in his yacht '' Suntory Mermaid'' on June 7.

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Horie completes 2nd solo sailing trip around globe

NISHINOMIYA, Japan - Japanese adventurer Kenichi Horie waves to well-wishers as he returns to Osaka Bay on June 7 after completing an eight-month nonstop solo voyage around the world in a yacht.

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(3)Japanese man finishes solo nonstop around-world trip in yacht

MIURA, Japan - Japanese adventurer Minoru Saito smiles after completing a solo nonstop voyage around the world in his yacht ''Shuten-dohji II'' on June 6. Saito, 71, arrived at a yacht harbor in Miura, Kanagawa Prefecture, becoming the world's oldest person to accomplish the fete.

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(3)Japanese man finishes solo nonstop around-world trip in yacht

MIURA, Japan - Japanese adventurer Minoru Saito smiles after completing a solo nonstop voyage around the world in his yacht ''Shuten-dohji II'' on June 6. Saito, 71, arrived at a yacht harbor in Miura, Kanagawa Prefecture, becoming the world's oldest person to accomplish the fete.

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(2)Japanese man finishes solo nonstop around-world trip in yacht

YOKOSUKA, Japan - Japanese adventurer Minoru Saito throws up his arms aboard the ''Shuten-dohji II'' as his yacht sails off Izu-Oshima Island toward the end of a solo nonstop voyage around the world on June 6. Saito, at 71, is the world's oldest person to accomplish the fete. He sailed eastwards via Cape Horn in Chile, Cape of Good Hope in South Africa and the Tasmania Island in Australia, and then sailed north to come back to Japan to end his 50,000 kilometers voyage.

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Reed-made boat begins 1,000 km cruise

TOSASHIMIZU, Japan - A Japanese adventurer and his team leave Tosashimizu, Kochi Prefecture, on a 1,000-kilometer journey in a boat made of reeds on May 8.

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(1)Horie on solo voyage passes Cape Horn

CAPE HORN, Chile - Japanese adventurer Kenichi Horie, who is now on a nonstop solo voyage around the world in a yacht, passes Cape Horn (back) at the tip of South America on Jan. 11, his supporters in Japan said Jan. 12.

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(2)Horie on solo voyage passes Cape Horn

CAPE HORN, Chile - Japanese adventurer Kenichi Horie (R), who is now on a nonstop solo voyage around the world in a yacht, throws a wreath in respect for those who came before him after passing Cape Horn at the tip of South America on Jan. 11.

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Adventurer Oba plans 3,800-km trek across Canadian Artic from Feb.

TOKYO, Japana - Japanese adventurer Mitsuro Oba points to a route in the Canadian tundra in the Arctic Circle in a photo taken in Tokyo on Nov. 25. He is planning a 3,800-kilometer trek across the area for four months beginning in February 2005. The 51-year-old Oba, who is currently on a six-year project to trek around the world to educate children about environmental issues, will be joined by Canadian, Norwegian and Russian adventurers on the journey.

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(2)Horie sets sail on 2nd nonstop solo world yacht voyage

KOBE, Japan - Japanese adventurer Kenichi Horie, 66, waves as he embarks on a nonstop solo voyage around the world Oct. 1 from a yacht harbor in Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, in a bid to repeat his achievement of the feat in 1974.

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(1)Horie sets sail on 2nd nonstop solo world yacht voyage

KOBE, Japan - Japanese adventurer Kenichi Horie smiles after receiving a bouquet from two children at a yacht harbor in Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan on Oct. 1. Horie, 66, set sail on a nonstop solo voyage around the world in a bid to repeat his achievement of the feat in 1974.

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Horie launches new yacht for solo world trip

YOKKAICHI, Japan - Japanese adventurer Kenichi Horie (R), who has already sailed around the world twice, launched his new yacht, the Suntory Mermaid, on Nov. 13 in preparation for another nonstop voyage around the world next year.

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(2)Yachtsman Horie completes 7th solo trans-Pacific voyage

SAN FRANCISCO, United States - Kenichi Horie is surrounded by reporters at San Francisco port on July 17 after completing a two-month voyage across the Pacific aboard his yacht MALT's Mermaid 3. The Mermaid 3 is made of recycled beer cans, whiskey barrels, plastic bottles and other materials. It is the same shape and size as the boat Horie used in his first Pacific voyage 40 years ago. The adventurer has made seven solo trips across the Pacific.

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Monument to adventurer Kono to be unveiled in Canada

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Picture shows a concept for a monument commemorating Japanese adventurer Hyoichi Kono, only the third person in the world to walk solo to the North Pole. The monument will soon be completed and unveiled May 1 in Resolute, Canada, a Matsuyama-based group said April 8. In May 2001, Kono was found dead in the Arctic Ocean.

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Japanese to complete 22,000-km Arctic trek in 2002

TACHIKAWA, Japan - A 57-year-old adventurer from Tokyo said he hopes to complete his 22,000-kilometer trek by dog sled across the Arctic from central Siberia to eastern Greenland in July 2002, more than five years since he set out on the journey and traveling nearly double the current long-distance record. Kazuo Kojima said he embarked on the trip because he wanted to follow the route supposedly taken by ancestors of the Inuits to reach the North American continent some 20,000 years ago. This photo was taken in May 2001, when Kojima and his Canadian teammate reached northern Canada after traveling some 2,500 km.

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Ashes of adventurer Kono returned to Japan

NARITA, Japan - Junko Kono, wife of Japanese adventurer Hyoichi Kono, returns to Narita airport on June 3, holding on to a blue handbag containing his husband's ashes. Kono, 43, was found dead in the Arctic Ocean on May 23 after he lost contact with supporters May 17 during an attempt to travel on foot and by kayak from the North Pole to his home in Ehime Prefecture.

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Body of missing adventurer Kono found in Arctic Ocean

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Japanese adventurer Hyoichi Kono (file photo), whose body was found in the Arctic Ocean on May 24 Japan time. His supporters on his attempt to travel from the North Pole to his native Ehime Prefecture in western Japan said the same day they lost contact with Kono about a week ago.

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Canada calls off search for missing Japanese adventurer

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Supporters of Hyoichi Kono, a Japanese adventurer who has been missing since Thursday in the Arctic Sea while on a trek from the North Pole to his native Ehime Prefecture in western Japan, collect information in an office in Ehime's capital Matsuyama on May 22. The Canadian Air Force informed them that it has called off its search for Kono.