Can’t say I entirely approve of such things – what is the POINT? I can’t help asking – but interesting that a British woman is about to break the record for walking to the south pole unassisted. No, that’s not the women’s record, that’s THE record. I must find an occasion to use this on Comment is Free some time, where a certain set of commentators always get very exercised about how I’m being “unrealistic” about women’s physical capabilities.
Two years after giving up her job as a marketing manager in Berkshire, Ms McKeand, 33, was on course to knock a full day off the previous record of 41 days 8 hours.
To complete her trek Ms McKeand, from Newbury, Berkshire, has spent nearly six lonely weeks dragging a 100 kilo (220lb) sledge across 690 miles of ice plains in temperatures as low as minus 35C.
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