XX Factor: The Ice Queen Cometh

Outside Podcast

Sports, Wilderness

4.4 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2017

⏱️ 24 minutes

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You hear about how the Arctic changes people—how it can lead them to lose their minds a little bit, or make dumb mistakes. Then there are those adventurers like Sarah McNair-Landry who are at their best on the ice. McNair-Landry grew up near the Arctic Circle, on Baffin Island. At 18, she joined a skiing expedition to the South Pole. A year later, she became the youngest person to reach both poles. She has since crossed the Greenland ice sheet five times and traversed the Gobi Desert in a kite buggy, among other journeys. Last year, she led a team that towed kayaks 400 miles across Greenland to run a river they'd seen on Google Earth. That was the plan, anyway—but almost nothing went as they expected. Outside contributing editor Florence Williams sat down with McNair-Landry at Mountainfilm, in Telluride, Colorado, to talk about sailing in frozen landscapes, close encounters with polar bears, and where she’s going next.

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0:00.0	This episode of the Outside Podcast is brought to you by REI Co-op.
0:07.0	They want to make the outdoors the largest level playing field on Earth.
0:11.0	And this summer, they're kicking off more than a thousand new classes and events
0:14.9	designed just for women. They're also running a series of all women's outdoor retreats called
0:21.4	Utesa. Am I saying that right?
0:23.0	Outessa, out tessa like...
0:25.0	Oteessa. Oteessa.
0:27.0	Sally Johnson is the senior manager of events marketing at REI.
0:31.0	She says the retreats are a kind of choose your own adventure.
0:35.0	You could come and you could spend the entire weekend in a hammock or you could you
0:39.5	could jam pack your weekend. Mountain biking, trail running, rock climbing, stand-up paddleboarding, you
0:45.5	name it. Last year, Sally attended one of the very first Arteza events. I just remember Friday
0:52.1	evening, it's the first day and so all these women had
0:57.1	gone out and done all these different activities that day and it was like the first
1:01.7	day of summer camp where you come in and you don't know anybody and you're kind of nervous.
1:06.5	And then by that evening, it was like everybody, they were best friends for life.
1:11.2	It really does sound like a summer camp for grown women.
1:15.0	Yes, yeah, with a little bit of wine thrown in as I like to say.
1:20.0	Visit re.com slash Force of Nature to find an outtest a retreat near you. From Outside magazine and PRX, these are dispatches. Stories from our writers in the field.
1:46.0	You hear sometimes about how the Arctic changes people,
1:49.0	how it can lead them to lose their minds a little bit,
1:52.0	or make dumb mistakes.
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