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Welcome to Base Camp, where National Geographic invites students and teachers to follow our explorers in the field.

Bookmark this page and report to camp each week for a different expedition. And be sure to pack plenty of virtual gear—fins, boots, oxygen tank, ropes, parka. There’s no telling where we’re headed next.

Classroom Ideas

From: Congo Trek
“[The elephant] put his head down for the charge, and I made another attempt to stop him, yelling even louder.”
Full Dispatch >> —Michael Fay, conservationist Photograph by Michael Nichols/Magnum



		DinoQuest: Sahara Scour the desert for seriously strange dinosaur giants with paleontologist Paul Sereno, who has already posted photo-filled dispatches on his latest finds!
		Congo Trek Conservationist Mike Fay is on a yearlong journey through Africa’s wild heart. He’s encountering sights, sounds, and even animals unfamiliar to most humans. And so will you.
		Blue Frontier Dive with National Geographic explorer Sylvia Earle on the Sustainable Seas Expeditions, an unprecedented exploration into the U.S. National Marine Sanctuaries.
		In Search of Human Origins From parched soil in southern Africa paleoanthropologist Lee Berger harvested tantalizing clues to our oldest ancestors. Relive his fossil hunt through photo-filled dispatches, and get an evolution overview.



		Andes Expedition: Johan Reinhard’s Search for Inca Mummies
		Ballard & the Black Sea: The Search for Noah’s Flood
		Contact in the Amazon: Finding a Feared Tribe
		Everest: Measure of a Mountain
		Fallout: A Film Crew’s Eye on the Montserrat Volcano
		Fire and Iceland: Filming a Fuming Glacier
		Innerspace: Filming Florida’s Deadly Underwater Caves
		Inside Chiquibul: Photographing Central America’s Longest Cave
		Kaikoura: In Search of the Giant Squid
		Solo From the Pole: Will Steger’s Unexpected Odyssey
		Sylvia Earle’s Sustainable Seas Expeditions