1.   Based in Spokane, Wash., Eddie Bauer Travel will send its first expedition to Nepal and India in March.

2.   A team of U.S. astronauts, not sporting the NASA logo, makes the first manned expedition to Mars in an attempt to colonize the planet.

3.   I learned this from my older brother, Rambob, on our first major expedition together.

4.   Our first expedition the morning after we arrived was to Susukino, one of the three sites of the festival.

5.   Shackleton was a celebrated polar explorer determined to lead the first expedition to cross Antarctica on foot.

6.   Waking shortly after dawn one morning on Andros Island, the Bahamas, during my first bonefishing expedition, I lay still and listened to the breeze.

7.   But winter-over stress has been a factor in Antarctic exploration since the first expeditions.

8.   He led the first Taiwanese expedition to the Himalayas.

9.   Last week, he was involved in the rediscovery of a cairn and flagpole marking the landfall of the first Antarctic expedition undertaken by a woman, Caroline Mikkelsen.

10.   The first military expedition embarked on by the Kremlin in the three years after the fall of Communism caused much agitation and apprehension.