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Maidens for the South Pole
12:44 p.m. EDT Sep 3, 2003
The bar at the South Pole station will be THE place to pick up some cool chicks this year.
News arrived that the South Pole Ice Maidens from Australia are joining the latest crowd of ladies going for the pole this year.
This all female expedition is heading down to Antarctica to ski from Patriot Hills to the South Geographic Pole later this fall. The four Australian women are out to prove the value of teamwork. "Teamwork is the ability to work towards a common vision. It is the ability to direct individual accomplishments towards team objectives" they write on their website.
Each woman is assigned her own responsibility in the expedition and they have chosen no leader at this point.
Team member Michele Bloomcamp explains her motivation for making the journey; "Dedication, having a dream, teamwork, staying positive and being willing to learn are all essential to the success of any big undertaking and my hope is that we can teach these to our children and inspire other women to believe in themselves."
Michele Bloomcamp, Julie Boros, Sandra Floate and Jane Yeadon will leave Australia late October 2003 and hopefully be on the ice by November. The journey should last for 60 to 70 days and if successful the Ice Maidens should reach the South Pole by January 2004.
Image courtesy of the South Pole Maidens website
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