Pasquale Scaturro

Pasquale Scaturro is founder and president of Exploration Specialists an international geophysical and exploration company. For the last 26 years he has managed geophysical oil and gas exploration and development projects in many of the most remote, dangerous and politically and technically challenging areas on earth, and has explored throughout North and South America, Africa, and the former Soviet Union. In 1986 he founded Seismic Specialists, a full service geophysical company and in 1988 founded US Seismic, a geophysical data acquisition company. In 1995 he founded Tricon Geophysics, a geophysical data processing company, with offices in Denver, Dallas and Houston.      

For over 20 years Pasquale has been extremely active in high altitude mountaineering and has been the leader of numerous expeditions to major mountains worldwide including three expeditions to Everest. In 1998 he summited Mt. Everest and in 2001 he conceived, organized, and led the National Federation of the Blind NFB 2001 Everest Expedition, in which blind climber Erik Weihenmayer reached the summit. The expedition was the cover feature of the June 2001 issue of Time Magazine which called it one of the most successful Mt. Everest expeditions in history, breaking five Everest climbing records. He was recently the expedition leader for a major filming project on the North Face of the Eiger in Switzerland for Alps: Giants of Nature, the newest MacGillivray Freeman IMAX film to be released in March 2007.      

Pasquale has multiple descents of major world-class rivers including the Bio Bio in Chile, rivers throughout North America, the Omo and Zambezi in Africa. In 1996 he scouted and completed the first descent of the Tekeze River in Ethiopia, the largest tributary to the Nile River and the deepest canyon in Africa. From November 2003 to April 2004 he organized and led the historic 114-day Nile First Descent Expedition, the first complete descent of the Blue Nile and Nile River from its source high in the mountains of Ethiopia to the Mediterranean Sea, a distance of 3,260 miles. The expedition had to overcome enormous hurdles: suicidal rapids, crocodile attacks, gunfire from bandits and arrests by unfriendly militias. It is featured in the newly released IMAX film Mystery of the Nile which is the highest grossing large format film of 2005. He has recently co-authored a book with Richard Bangs, Mystery of the Nile, published by Penguin Books which chronicles the expedition.      

Pasquale has filmed rafting and mountaineering projects for ESPN, Turner Television, MacGillivray Freeman Films, MSNBC, MSN, PBS, Discovery Channel, National Geographic Channel, and OrbitaMax.  He has appeared on the Today Show, National Public Radio, Time Magazine, Outside Magazine. National Geographic Adventure, Playboy Magazine, The Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News, LA Times, Hooked on the Outdoors, Homeopathy Today, Chicago Sun-Times, Boston Globe, Paddler Magazine, and many others.      

Drawing upon a lifetime of experiences, Pasquale Scaturro's motivational talks have inspired audiences throughout the United States and Europe, and taught people that the realm of impossibility has no limits. Married at a very early age, serving in the U.S. military and struggling to complete a degree in geophysics and raise three children at the same time, Pasquale learned what it was to sacrifice and at the same time to strive to make his dreams materialize. His logistical expertise, hard work and enormous commitment has enabled him to lead some of the most successful mountain and river expeditions in history while at the same time combining a full time career in geophysical exploration.  Leadership, persistence, planning skills,  organizational ability, flexibility to overcome unexpected obstacles, and performance under pressure are all factors in Pasquale's remarkable endeavors both in business and on the rivers and mountains of the world.