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Ann Bancroft
Author
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xiv, 191 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"The first woman to ski solo to the South Pole tells the story of what it took to get there"--
At home in Norway it is eight oclock on Christmas Eve night, but ahead, at the AmundsenScott base that has been visible for hours, it is already early in the morning of Christmas Day when Liv Arnesen, after skiing solo for 745 miles in fifty days, finally arrives. She had been dreaming of the South Pole for most of her forty-one years, and now, even in...
Author
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First University of Minnesota Press edition.
Physical Desc
251 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"The fascinating chronicle of Liv Arnesen and Ann Bancroft's dramatic journey as the first two women to cross Antarctica, No Horizon Is So Far follows the explorers from the planning of their expedition through their brutal trek from the Norwegian sector all the way to McMurdo Station as they walked, skied, and ice-sailed for almost three months in temperatures reaching as low as -35°F, all while towing their 250-pound supply sledges across 1,700...
Author
Publisher
Minnesota Historical Society Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1930 two novice paddlers—Eric Sevareid and Walter C. Port—launched a secondhand 18-foot canvas canoe into the Minnesota River at Fort Snelling for an ambitious summer-long journey from Minneapolis to Hudson Bay. Without benefit of radio, motor, or good maps, the teenagers made their way over 2,250 miles of rivers, lakes, and difficult portages. Nearly four months later, after shooting hundreds of sets of rapids and surviving exceedingly...
