S1, E3: ON THE ICE

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4.5 • 9.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2017

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Twenty years ago, hundreds of women answered a classified ad seeking adventurers for an all-women trek to the North Pole - no expedition experience necessary. On the ice, 20 of those women came face to face with just how deadly the Arctic can be, while also discovering something in themselves that changed their lives forever. Reported by Rose Eveleth. Hosted by Jody Avirgan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:40.4	The quest to conquer the Arctic has enticed and evaded explorers for centuries.
0:46.1	Thousands of people have died trying to make the trip, by ship, by foot, by dog sled, and even once by balloon.
0:53.7	But in 1997, a woman named Caroline Hamilton decided to make history
0:58.2	by taking a team made up entirely of amateur women to the North Pole.
1:03.8	30 for 30s Rose Avaleth takes us on the ice.
1:21.6	The Ice. The first attempt on the North Pole by a team of women gets underway today. Four of them set off from Resolute Bay in northern Canada on the first stage of the 1,000-kilometer trek to the pole.
1:32.6	March 14, 1997, day one.
1:38.3	As these women just proudly walked over to the Twin Otter, you know, the mist rising from our breaths and the
1:46.0	early dawned light capturing it. It felt like we were astronauts heading off to our spaceship.
1:52.0	It was so exciting. The heart's going. The heart definitely is going. You just get in the
1:58.0	plane and it's magical. I love Twin Otters. The sound and the smell of the Abgas. The plane is going. You just get in the plane and it's magical. I love Twin Otters. The sound and the smell of the
2:01.5	abgas. The plane is amazing. Twin Otters are wonderful things. I mean just the propellers. It's like the biggest hair dryer
2:10.9	in the world. And the snow starts turning up behind and you're jam packed in. He's against your
2:17.4	pox, your sledges,
2:18.3	which were all jammed into this convey.
2:20.3	And then you kind of go out and you're flying away from civilization and over, you know, over the Arctic. I think that's when it really hit me that we were on ice.
2:42.7	And you saw the big, thick, black lines that were the leads that had opened up.
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