Harriet Chalmers Adams

Harriet Chalmers Adams ( * October 22, 1875; † July 17, 1937 in Nice ) was an American explorer, journalist and photographer. From her travels to South America, Asia and Oceania, she reported in National Geographic magazine. They often gave lectures in which they showed many slides and film recordings.

Life

A three-year expedition through South America in 1904, taken together with her husband, was the beginning. They visited every country on the continent and crossed the Andes on horseback.

Later, a U.S. expedition followed in the footsteps of Christopher Columbus, where she also rode across Haiti. After she came as a correspondent for Harper 's Magazine to Europe during the First World War, she undertook a second expedition to South America, where they toured in particular the eastern Bolivia.

Appeared in National Geographic 1907-1935 twenty- illustrated articles, including Handsome Wonderful Sights in the Andean Highlands ( September 1908 ), Kaleidoscopic La Paz: City of the Clouds ( February 1909 ) and Encircled River Paraguay ( April 1933 ). She reported from Trinidad, Suriname, Bolivia, Peru and across the railway line across the Andes, from Buenos Aires to Valparaiso leader.

At Adams ' times, the National Geographic Society took no women as full members. Adams therefore participated in 1925 in the founding of the Society of Woman Geographers, whose chairman, she was until 1933.

Adams to have traveled more than a hundred thousand miles, and countless people have impressed with their presentations. The New York Times wrote: " Harriet Chalmers Adams is America's greatest explorer. Your ability to electrify, the day before the end of her audience is second to none, neither women nor men. " After her death in Nice in 1937 appeared in the Washington Post obituary, which they as a ", " described confidant of savage headhunters, the until recently remotest corners of the world crossed.