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No Horizon Is So Far: Two Women and Their Historic Journey Across Antarctica Paperback
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At ages 45 and 47, two former schoolteachers set out to become the first women to cross Antarctica on foot. American Ann Bancroft and Norwegian Liv Arnesen would walk, ski, and ski-sail for nearly three months in temperatures as low as -35F, towing 250-pound supply sledges across two thousand miles of crevasse-ridden ice while connecting with millions of schoolchildren via Web site transmissions and satellite phone calls.
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherPenguin Books
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To make everything unbelievably perfect, both the women who made this expedition are educators. So am I. There was a time in my classes when my students would be doing group work that I would let my laptop project the photos I'd taken on my travels on the screen in front of the room. It was my quiet, subliminal message to them, "There is a bigger world out there than the BA in Business Administration you are so hell bent on getting. There is more to success in life than money." It mattered a lot to me that my students found the courage to dream beyond their GPA and sometimes I succeeded in getting my message across.
And...one of these women has a "learning difference." So do I. It was all just amazing to me to find this book, to "meet" these women, to read their story. I have more to say, but I do not want to spoil the true climax of the book. It's too beautiful for me to give away; it is something for every reader to find and experience.
P.S. There is nothing wrong with falling in love, dealing with problems at work, dealing with parents, or raising kids. It's just that most of the women I know do other things TOO.
The photo sections show them as they looked in their youth and on the various sections of their explorations. They give details of how they trained for this difficult adventure, and of the problems they endured getting the monetary sponsorships. Apple would not donate cash, but did provide $150,000 in computer equipment, phones, and technical support. One photo shows Liv making her regularly scheduled call to CNN out in the middle of nowhere with snow and ice everywhere.
From November 13 to February 18, the summer season when the sun shines twenty-four hours each day, they treked from the northernmost point about Queen Maud land to McMurdo, an American research base. It was quite a four-month feat, but they did it not just for the record but to show youth everywhere what can be accomplished. They were physically in their prime and had trained for years for this extraordinary walkand and skiing ordeal. Liv Arnesen and Ann Brancroft are to be commended; Ann was the first woman in history to cross the ice to both the North and South poles. Liv was the first woman to ski 745 miles to the South Pole solo during a fifty-day expedition. Together, they achieve the dreams both have held onto since young girls playing in the snow in their native homelands.