Skiing into the Bright Open: My Solo Journey to the South Pole

The first woman to ski solo to the South Pole tells the story of what it took to get there

At home in Norway it is eight o’clock on Christmas Eve night, but ahead, at the Amundsen-Scott base that has been visible for hours, it is already early in the morning of Christmas Day when Liv Arnesen, after skiing solo for 745 miles in fifty days, finally arrives. She had been dreaming of the South Pole for most of her forty—one years, and now, even in her joy at having reached her goal in December ...