#torimurden

'Thirty-six years old at the time, she rowed for eighty-one days, travelling 4,767 kilometres (2,962 mi), starting from the Canary Islands and finishing at Guadeloupe on December 3, 1999. Her boat, The Pearl, was twenty-three feet long, four feet high, and six feet wide; it weighed about 1800 pounds.[8] It was her second trip across the ocean, her first one cut short due to the hurricane season in 1998. She wrote a memoir about her experiences, A Pearl in the Storm: How I Found My Heart in the Middle of the Ocean, published by HarperCollins in 2009. She is also noted for her 700-mile ski across the South Pole (the first woman to ski to the South Pole), and she was the first woman to climb Lewis Nunatak in the Antarctic.