4 Women on Way to Ski Across Antarctica
Four women skiers left Sunday for a trip across the bottom of the world expected to last four months. If the nearly 1,600-mile odyssey is successful, they will be the first women to cross Antarctica on skis alone, without dog sleds, said leader Ann Bancroft of the American Women’s Trans-Antarctica Expedition.
About 300 people bid the four women farewell Sunday at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. They were to fly to Miami, then on to Punta Arenas, Chile. Next Sunday, they will fly to the Ronne Ice Shelf on the Atlantic Ocean side of Antarctica to begin their expedition.
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