At 40, Uttarakhand’s Kavita Chand scaled Mount Vinson, Antarctica’s highest peak. From corporate life to extreme adventure, ...
CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand — The howling winds and perpetual darkness of the Antarctic winter were easing to a frozen spring when mechanic Liz Monahon at McMurdo Station grabbed a hammer. If those in ...
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Scared was too strong a word to describe how I was feeling en route to Antarctica. I was nervous-uneasy, really. Our ship, the National Geographic Explorer, had just departed Ushuaia, the Argentinian ...
Britt Barquist poses for a photo at McMurdo Base in Antarctica in 2018. The Associated Press found a pattern of women working in Antarctica who said their claims of sexual harassment or assault had ...
A sign is photographed at McMurdo Station on Dec. 4, 2018. The Associated Press found a pattern of women working in Antarctica who said their claims of sexual harassment or assault had been minimized ...
The National Science Foundation, the federal agency that oversees the U.S. Antarctic Program, published a report in 2022 in which 59% of women said they’d experienced harassment or assault while on ...
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