Five Women in Search of an Adventure.
In 1997, a team of women walked to the North Pole. For the team leader, Caroline Hamilton, this experience of the hardships, dangers and extraordinary human triumphs in the ice and snow of the Arctic had but one lasting problem: it wasn't enough. And so in 1999 these women have returned to the snowy wastes and arid landscapes, only this time to the least-visited continent on the planet, Antarctica. They will walk, unassisted by any outside parties, from the edge of the continent to the pole, making them the first all women team to reach both poles.
These are ordinary women with ordinary jobs: A film financier, a civil servant, a sports physiotherapist, a property developer and a freelance journalist. Facing extraordinary challenges - 700 miles across the highest, driest, coldest and windiest continent on earth - facing driving winds and temperatures of minus 50 degrees, dragging sleds of twice their own body weight and adjusting to never ending daylight and the effects that unusual magnetic forces will have on their bodies. For the women, this will be an adventure unlike anything they - or indeed anyone else alive - has ever attempted.
'South Pole 2000' reveals this historical journey and behind-the-scenes preparations undertaken for it: fundraising, training, route planning and sourcing equipment and permits.
