Ross McElwee is an Americandocumentary filmmaker and cinematographer known for his autobiographical films about his family and personal life, usually interwoven with an episodic journey of some sort.
... to reach the North Pole
Auguste Piccard, (1884-1962), physicist and explorer
Jacques Piccard[?], (born 1922), undersea explorer
Francisco Pizarro, (1471-1541), conqueror ...