Explorer gives up North Pole effort

British explorer Hannah McKeand has called off her attempt to become the first woman to reach the North Pole alone and unaided after falling through ice and injuring herself.

Setting out from Canada’s Ward Hunt Island on March 8, she’d hoped to ski, walk and swim the 478 miles to the pole in 60 days.

McKeand, 34, hurt her leg, back and shoulder when she fell into an 8-foot-deep hole in the polar ice the night of March 20. She was 45 miles north of her starting point. The pole can get as cold as minus 76 degrees.

Her expedition manager announced Sunday that McKeand had called off her effort.