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Lunch or Dinner with Richard Wiese — Explorer and Host of ABC’s Born to Explore — in New York City or Weston, Connecticut

Richard is an Emmy-winning host and producer of of the television program Born to Explore with Richard Wiese™, which airs weekly on ABC.

In 2002, he became the youngest man ever to become president of the Explorers Club in its hundred-year history.

Richard has traveled to all seven continents and has participated in several expeditions and projects. During his presidency of the Explorers Club, he worked in Mexico’s Yucatán jungle putting satellite collars on  jaguars. He climbed and sampled the most geologically unique volcano in the world, Tanzania's Ol Doiny Lengai (which means "mountain of god" in the language of the local Maasai tribe) and participated in two expeditions to Antarctica to core glaciers for the purpose of climatological studies.

He was also a member of the 2004 Yeronisos Island Expedition in Cyprus and led an expedition to bio-prospect for extremophiles and new life forms in Mount Kilimanjaro's Ngorongoro Crater, resulting in the discovery of 29 new life forms. The expedition to Kilimanjaro also involved placing the first-ever weather station on its slopes, crucial for tracking the effects of global warming. He was a team member of the largest medical expedition ever conducted on Mount Everest, and cross-country skied to the North Pole.In 2004, he received the  Golden Halo Advertising Award for Best Environmental/Wildlife Campaign, and in 2012, he received the Cronkite Award for Excellence in Exploration and Journalism.

Richard’s television program sends positive cultural and environmental message to viewers around the world, and has resulted in several awards. The show was nominated for a Daytime Emmy for Best Children’s Television Series, and garnered a SABRE award for "Product Placement" along with Travel Canada. In 2013, the series won a Daytime Emmy Award, and the show was renewed through the 2016 season. Wiese has continued to receive acclaim alongside the show, and gained more accolades of his own.

As an extreme adventurer, his stated goal of his television series is to inspire young people and spark their interest for discovery and the love of outdoors. He says that Born To Explore™ is a way to encourage this growth and environmental activism, as well as educate his audience on exotic cultures and animals.

www.borntoexploretv.com

Item Special Note

Being auctioned is dinner or lunch with one the world’s foremost shark experts or celebrities. It is a unique opportunity to “talk shark” face-to-face, one-on-one, with a real authority on sharks. 

How it works:

1. Bid on a celebrity, shark scientist or conservationist that lives or works in your area, unless you are willing to drive or fly to meet them in their area.

2. The winning bidder pays for the lunch or dinner and may bring as many guests as he or she wishes.

3. We will introduce the winning bidder to the celebrity, scientist or conservationist. The two of you then set a mutually agreeable  date, time and place to meet within one year of the close of the auction.

All winning bids are charitable contributions deductible from US Federal 2013 income taxes.  Funds raised by the auction will be used to support shark research and conservation programs.