Exploring the North and South Pole with Ann Bancroft

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🗓️ 23 January 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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What if your life revolved around leading groundbreaking polar expeditions? In 1986, polar explorer Ann Bancroft became the first woman to ski to the North Pole after a chance encounter with Will Steger.

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0:00.0	It's winter and getting outside might require a little more bundling up and planning
0:07.9	than usual. But for those who can learn to embrace the cold like Polar Explorer and Bancroft winter can be a cold like Polar Explorer and Bancroft, winter can be a
0:14.6	magical time of year to go adventuring. I feel my energy rise when it
0:22.0	snows when it's when it's cold, and a crisp, and I don't exactly know why, but there's
0:29.5	something about those cold places that is utterly exhilarating.
0:37.0	Anne has never shied away from the cold.
0:40.0	In 1986, she was the first woman to ski to the North Pole.
0:44.8	Anne went on to lead many more groundbreaking expeditions, and in 1995, she was inducted
0:49.8	into the National Women's Hall of Fame.
0:52.6	I'm Shelby Stanger, and this is wild ideas worth living,
0:56.2	an REI co-op studio's production brought to you by Capital One. Anne wanted to be an ex- 1.
1:04.0	Anne wanted to be an explorer ever since she was a kid.
1:07.0	By the time she was in her 20s, she had made voyages to Denali and the northernmost parts of Canada. At home in Minnesota, Anne worked as a teacher
1:16.5	and she had a side job at a local outdoor store. One evening, while Anne was working the
1:21.6	Register at the store,
1:23.3	a Polar Explorer named Will Steiger walked in.
1:26.4	Will was pretty well known in the outdoor community
1:28.8	in the 1980s.
1:30.3	He'd completed the longest recorded Arctic crossing, and he was about to set out on another expedition to the North Pole.
1:37.0	How do you get to like interview for a position on the North Pole?
1:41.0	Like where do you hear about it, how does it come to you?
1:44.5	And this is the Will Stager International North Pole Expedition in 1986.
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