Pasquale Scaturro –
Explorer, Adventurer, and Geophysicist – is one of the world’s most accomplished and renowned expedition leaders. From the summit of Mt. Everest to the most challenging whitewater on earth, he’s been exploring the far reaches of the planet for over 25 years. Follow him to the cutting edge of adventure…
nile first descent expedition
For 114 days, Pasquale Scaturro and Gordon Brown faced seemingly insurmountable challenges as they made their way along all 3,260 miles of the river to become the first in history to complete a full descent of the Blue Nile from source to sea. The expedition spawned the popular IMAX film as well as a book, both titled Mystery of the Nile... Read More »"You are such an inspiration! Thank you so much for treating our team to a marvelous talk and slide show. Everyone has been talking about your presentation... how amazed they were at all you have accomplished in life, how you live life to the fullest, and how you foster great teams and accomplish incredible feats amidst unbelievable challenges and conditions. You were an excellent addition to our “I live for the challenge. Therefore I GoLite” sales meeting!"
Kim Riether Coupounas, Co-Founder + Chief Sustainability Officer, GoLite
national federation of the blind everest expedition
In the early morning hours of May 25, 2001 history was made when the National Federation of the Blind 2001 Everest Expedition stood on the top of the world. This team of climbers, led by Pasquale Scaturro, included Eric Alexander, Sherman Bull and his son Brad, Luis Benitez, Mike Brown, Jeff Evans, Steve Gipe, Didrik Johnck, Charlie Mace, Chris Morris, Mike O'Donnell, and blind climber Erik Weihenmayer. Not only did Weihenmayer reach the summit, but also the oldest climber to summit (Sherman Bull), and the largest team summiting with 19 of 21 members.
“There is no way to put what Erik has done in perspective because no one has ever done anything like it. It is a unique achievement, one that in the truest sense pushes the limits of what man is capable of.”Time Magazine
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omo river expedition
"OK, EVERYBODY, LISTEN UP!" Scaturro barked in a booming, gravelly voice. He was standing by the bow of his gray Avon Pro raft, dressed in a clean khaki field shirt, shorts, and flip-flops, about to deliver his morning pep talk. It was around 10 a.m. on the eighth day of the trip, in late 2006, and we were about to shove off from the previous night's camp, a narrow, terraced beach that crowded into the Omo's tangled riverine forest. Across the water, a troop of nervous baboons clambered on a cliff face festooned with tropical greenery. We were coming down out of the mountains here, some 160 river miles below our put-in, and Scaturro was worried about falling behind schedule...Outside Magazine
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Journey ACROSS ARABIA
For the first time in recent history a filming expedition crossed the entire Arabian Peninsula to reveal the true essence of an often misunderstood region. Through the experience of a team of adventurers this journey of a lifetime uncovered the richness of cultures that have flourished in one of the most hostile environments on Earth.
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expedition ethiopia
Since 1991 I have been traveling to and exploring Ethiopia. From 1991 to 1994, I traveled and worked as an exploration geophysicist in some of Ethiopia’s more remote and dangerous areas, mainly the Ogaden Basin, an unstable region populated by the lawless Ogaden Somalis and bordered by the country of Somalia which at the time was in the midst of one of the most dangerous civil wars in the world.
Working as a geophysicist, however, gave me the opportunity to travel to places that no other westerner could travel to. I've had the good fortune to explore the breadth and width of a magnificent country that had been closed off to the outside world since the overthrow of the last Emperor Haile Selassie in 1974. Read More»