Ann Bancroft

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Ann Bancroft (born September 29, 1955 in Mendota Heights , Minnesota ) is an American adventurer , polar explorer and author .

life and work

Ann Bancroft is the eldest daughter of Debbie and Richard "Dick" Bancroft (1927–2018), the "official" photographer of the US Indian resistance organization AIM . After receiving a Bachelor of Science degree in Physical Education from the University of Oregon, Bancroft worked as a physical education teacher. She gave up this work in 1986 to take part in an expedition to the North Pole led by Will Steger . After 56 days, the international group had successfully mastered this using dog sleds .

She also crossed Greenland on skis in 1992 , and in 1993 she led a South Pole expedition consisting of four women (with Sunniva Sorby , Anne Dal Vera and Sue Giller ) on skis to the South Pole . 1060 km were covered in 67 days. Bancroft was the first woman to reach both the North Pole and the South Pole.

In 2001 she crossed the Antarctic with Liv Arnesen . They used both sails and skis. It covered 2,747 km in 94 days.

An Arctic crossing planned with Liv Arnesen in March 2007 to draw attention to the problem of global warming and the melting polar ice caps had to be canceled due to extreme cold and frostbite.

Honors

Because of her success, she was inducted into the United States' National Women's Hall of Fame .

Fonts

  • Ann Bancroft, Liv Arnesen: No Horizon is so Far: An Extraordinary Journey across Antarctica . Da Capo Press, 2003. ISBN 0-7382-0794-2
  • Liv Arnesen, Ann Bancroft: Only the horizon in view: two women in the Antarctic. Frederking and Thaler, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-492-40281-X .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Claus Biegert : Obituary for Richard "Dick" Bancroft, in: COYOTE - Indianische Gegenwart , vol. 30, no. 116/117, Dec. 2018, p. 72
  2. ^ Frostbite Ends Bancroft-Arnesen Trek , Patrick Condon, The Washington Post, March 12, 2007
personal data
SURNAME Bancroft, Ann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American adventurer, polar explorer and author
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Mendota Heights , Minnesota