Wheeler Expeditions

Name: Wheeler Expeditions
Address: 2598 East Sunrise Boulevard, Fort Lauderdale, FL, 33304, US
Telephone: +17542224393
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Since 1976, we have led unique, first-class adventures to exotic locations around the world. Join a
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Dr. Jack Wheeler, "The Real Indiana Jones," uses his intimate knowledge of the world, established relationships with locals, and over 40 years of adventure travel experience to personally design each and every expedition as a unique, first-class adventure. When you join a Wheeler Expedition, you embark on an adventure unlike any other. Every expedition we design is a unique combination of culture, history, and adventure: an intrepid voyage deep into the hidden mysteries of a land.

06/25/2024

Portugal May 2024

06/25/2024

Rafting in Albania 2024 April

06/25/2024

2024 Highlights

04/28/2023

Madeira is a paradisiacal island just short flight from Lisbon. It's green, lush, and inviting... with gardens, water, and flowers everywhere. We enjoy these scenic drives with the warm sun, light breezes, and colorful scenes. The next journey begins June 27 in Funchal, the capital.

04/25/2023

After our Portugal Expedition, May 12-21, 2023 we have Atlantic Paradises, June 25-July 5 to Madeira and the Azores Islands of Portugal. The nature we'll see on that journey...includes whale watching and swimming with dolphins...

07/13/2021

Here is a beautiful leopard sunning in a tree this morning in Zambia's game reserve in South Luangwa... a rare and special sight to see! Photo by Jack Wheeler, currently leading our Wheeler Expeditions safari. It is an amazing experience. Maybe you can join us in 2020.

06/14/2021

The team at Wheeler Expeditions announces that we are officially opening and able to offer you incredible expeditions again -- as of July 2021! We hope you can join us...

Wheeler Adventures, which later became Wheeler Expeditions, was founded in 1976 with the goal of leading anyone with an intrepid spirit and a positive attitude on thrilling journeys all around the world. Does this sound like you?

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2598 East Sunrise Boulevard
Fort Lauderdale, FL
33304

Telephone

+17542224393

Website

https://www.wheelerwindsorexpeditions.com/unique-luxury-expeditions/

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Dr. Jack Wheeler, described by The Wall Street Journal as “The Real Indiana Jones”, uses his intimate knowledge of the world, established relationships with locals, and over 40 years of adventure travel experience to personally design each and every expedition as a unique, first-class adventure. When you join a Wheeler Expedition, you embark on an adventure unlike any other. Every expedition we design is a unique combination of culture, history, and adventure: an intrepid voyage deep into the hidden mysteries of a land.

Our ability to create incredible adventures is inspired by Dr Wheeler’s 60 years of non-stop globetrotting...

1956: Born in 1943 in Glendale, California, he became the youngest Eagle Scout in American history at age 12, receiving the honor of traveling to the White House to meet President Eisenhower.

1958: Only two years later, he became the youngest person to summit the Matterhorn in the Swiss Alps, one of the most iconic mountains in the world.

1960: He didn’t stop there: at age 16, he left home to travel deep into the Amazon jungle, where he was adopted into a clan of headhunters called the Jivaro, the only people in the world to shrink human heads.

1960: In the same year, Jack swam the famed Hellespont, the Turkish strait linking the Aegean Sea to the Sea of Marmara, known from the ancient Greek myth of Lysander.

1961: At age 17, while travelling through pre-war Vietnam, he saved a Montagnard village terrorized by a huge tiger known as the Man Killer of Dalat.

1976: After receiving his Ph.D. in Aristotelian ethics from the University of Southern California, he wrote his first book, The Adventurer’s Guide (McKay, 1976), the first how-to handbook to becoming an adventurer oneself.

1976: In the same year, he founded Wheeler Adventures, later to become Wheeler Expeditions, with the goal of leading anyone with an intrepid spirit and a positive attitude on thrilling journeys all around the world.

1976-1979: In the following years, he made three “first contacts” with tribes never before seen by the outside world: a clan of Aushiri in the Amazon, the Wali-Ali-Fo in New Guinea, and a band of bushmen in the Kalahari.

1979: Jack led an expedition retracing, for the first time in history, Hannibal’s route over the Alps with elephants.

1981: On April 15, Jack set the world record for the Most Northerly Parachute Jump: at 90°N, free-falling right onto the North Pole. As one edition of the Guinness Book of World Records says, “Wheeler’s record is one that cannot be bettered after setting”, for you can’t get more north than the North Pole.

1984: Jack founded the Freedom Research Foundation, an organization dedicated to promoting freedom around the world. He traveled to numerous countries over the following years, such as Angola, Mozambique, Afghanistan, and Romania, to help those nations regain their sovereignty and bring freedom to their people.