How a Normal(ish) Woman Got To The South Pole Unsupported, with Monet Izabeth

Outside Podcast

Sports, Wilderness

4.3 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2026

⏱️ 61 minutes

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We love our spur of the moment adventuring. Maybe a pal calls us up for a self-inflicted, day-long backcountry sufferfest, maybe we decide on a whim to see how many miles we can push it on a bike ride, maybe we sign up for a Turkey Trot 10k with no training. But there is one woman who has taken that “maybe I’ll get off the couch and just try this hard thing” mindset to the ends of the Earth. Literally. This past January, Monet Izabeth became the first American woman to ski solo and unsupported to the South Pole; 700 miles, 57 days, whiteouts, extreme wind, and minus 40 temps. Monet is no elite athlete. She’s a self proclaimed normal-ish woman who asked, “I wonder if I can do this?” And then went to the ice sheets of Antarctica to find out.

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1:34.6	Okay, so you're in Nepal right now because...
1:41.1	Because I sort of live here.
1:43.5	I try to be here as much as possible.
1:45.7	Where do you live?
1:47.1	Okay, my official response is I split my time between Kathmandu and New England.
1:51.6	But that looks so different from year to year.
1:54.2	And training for the South Pole totally, like I had to do my schedule around different training stuff.
1:59.5	So I try to spend five months of the year in Nepal. And you got there last night today, this morning. What time? Where? How? What is math? No, it's 9.45 p.m. here. 945 p.m. And I arrived at 6.30 a.m. this morning after a sleepless flight from Istanbul. Oh, so like, we're going to get super
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