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ABCNEWS VideoSource
North Pole Expedition - Women reach the pole ahead of their time
06/02/2002
APTN
VSAP340122
TAPE: EF02/0470 IN_TIME: 23:46:40 DURATION: 1:26 SOURCES: SKY RESTRICTIONS: DATELINE: Arctic Circle, recent/N. Pole 2 June SHOTLIST: Arctic Circle, Recent 1. Aerial of snow covered mountains 2. Women on plane 3. Aerial of ice flow 4. Plane on ice 5. Explorers Caroline Hamilton and Ann Daniels unloading plane 6. Women packing sledges 7. Women waving to camera 8. Women begin trek 9. Various women on skis North Pole - 2 June 2002 10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Caroline Hamilton, Explorer (over graphic): "I think probably early on when the weather was so bad. It was minus fifty degrees centigrade there were very strong winds and probably for me the day when the wind blew up very very quickly so, quickly that we were able to put our tent up we had to spend three days just huddled together under a piece of flapping tent fabric we weren't able to drink anything or eat anything, just wait for the storm to subside I think that's when I was the most frightened." Arctic Circle, Recent 11. Women on skis walking away STORYLINE: Two British women completed a gruelling trek to the North Pole on Sunday, becoming the first female team to conquer both North and South Poles. The pair completed their 81-day journey over the shifting, melting Arctic Ocean pulling 250lb sledges packed with food and equipment. Caroline Hamilton and Ann Daniels set off from Resolute Bay in the Canadian Arctic on March 12, covering nearly 600 kilometres (450 miles) across the ice. At times melting ice packs forced Hamilton, 35, a film financier, and Daniels, 37, a former banker, to swim through freezing water. The two were members of a five-member all-woman expedition which walked all the way to the South Pole in January, 2000. They were initially accompanied on the North Pole bid by 50-year-old Pom Oliver, also a member of the South Pole team, who was forced to quit the expedition with badly frostbitten feet on day 47. For Hamilton, the trek marked a third Polar triumph - she led a 20-woman relay to the North Pole which in May, 1997 became the first successful all-woman Polar expedition.
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