Woman heads for N. Pole
NZPA-Reuter Ward Hunt Island Canada
An American, Pam Flowers, set out with a sled and eight dogs yesterday on a journey she hopes will make her'the first lone woman to reach the North Pole by land. Before leaving, Ms Flowers, aged 40, said she expected the trip to take 60 to 70 days. She will make daily radio contact with base camp at Resolute, a weather station and far-north airport in Canada.
Ms Flowers must complete her trek by mid-May at the latest because the 24-hour Arctic sun, which comes with the spring equinox in mid-March, will make the ice too broken and mushy to traverse beyond that date. The straight-line distance from her starting point to the pole is 750 km, but Ms Flowers expects she will travel at least 1600 km as she detours around obstacles such as ice-pressure ridges as high as 15m, as well as open water.
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Press, 9 March 1987, Page 10
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