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As of 2020 she holds the record for the most winters spent by a woman at the South Pole. She spent five winters total: 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008. 2004. Fiona Thornewill became first British woman to ski solo and unsupported to the South Pole in a record breaking 41 days. [9] Linda Beilharz is the first Australian woman to ski to the ...
Silvia Morella de Palma was the first woman to give birth in Antarctica, delivering 3.4 kg (7 lb 8 oz) Emilio Palma at the Argentine Esperanza base on 7 January 1978. In 1988 American Lisa Densmore became the first woman to reach the summit Mount Vinson. [102] In 1993, American Ann Bancroft led the first all woman expedition to the South Pole ...
She was also the first woman and first American to ski to the geographic South Pole and the first woman to climb the Lewis Nunatak in the Antarctic. She was the president of Spalding University, a private Catholic university in Louisville, Kentucky, for 25 years until her retirement in 2024. [3]
On December 14, 1911, Roald Amundsen became the first person to reach the geographic South Pole, part of a tragic race against Britain's Robert Scott who died of exhaustion and cold on the return ...
Laurence de la Ferrière (born 1957) is a French mountaineer, explorer and writer. After breaking the woman's world record for altitude without oxygen on Mount Everest in 1992, in 1997 she became the first French woman to reach the South Pole alone, covering some 1,400 km (870 miles) in 57 days.
By Eric Sandler On August 20, 1975 -- 39 years ago today -- NASA launched the first of two spacecraft as a part of their new Viking program and the images they captured back in the '70s and '80s ...
Stephanie Solomonides (Greek: Στεφανία Σολομωνίδου; b.1982, Nicosia) is an explorer, who is the first person from Cyprus to reach both the North and the South Poles. [1] She became the first Cypriot to reach the South Pole on 29 December 2009 as part of the Kaspersky Commonwealth Antarctic Expedition.
The most detailed images and observations ever captured of one of Mars' moons have been released by scientists. Pictures taken by Hope Probe from the UAE Space Agency's Emirates Mars Mission (EMM ...