Four to the Pole

Ann Bancroft has become famous in Minnesota and around the world for her work as an explorer of the North and South pole regions. This book tells the story of the American Women's Trans-Antarctic Expedition in 1992-1993. Ann led an expedition of four women in an effort to traverse the continent on skis. The effort fell short, but became the first overland expedition to reach the Pole by women. Told in diary excerpts, letters, radio dispatches, as well as narrative by author Nancy Loewen, it was a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award in 2002. Now we just have to wait for the book about the 2001 expedition with Liv Arnesen where Ann did complete a trip across the continent.