Post by Nubian Zuri* on Apr 27, 2009 8:23:15 GMT -5
This more thsn determind Blac Women pretty much risk her life to travel to thi col climate. Frost bite, polar bears and ice shiting under her feet. She was determined.
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April 27
Barbara Hillary *On this date in 2007, the first black woman trekked to the North Pole. 75 year old Barbara Hillary, of Averne, N.Y., made the journey.
The bone-numbing trek to the North Pole is riddled frostbite, polar bears and the ice is constantly shifting beneath your feet. Hillary is also one of the oldest people to reach the North Pole. She grew up in Harlem and devoted herself to a nursing career and community activism. At 67 and during retirement, she battled lung cancer. Five years later, she went dog sledding in Quebec and photographed polar bears in Manitoba. Then she heard that a black woman had never made it to the North Pole. "I said, `What's wrong with this picture?'" she said. "So I sort of rolled into this, shall we say."
The expedition
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April 27
Barbara Hillary *On this date in 2007, the first black woman trekked to the North Pole. 75 year old Barbara Hillary, of Averne, N.Y., made the journey.
The bone-numbing trek to the North Pole is riddled frostbite, polar bears and the ice is constantly shifting beneath your feet. Hillary is also one of the oldest people to reach the North Pole. She grew up in Harlem and devoted herself to a nursing career and community activism. At 67 and during retirement, she battled lung cancer. Five years later, she went dog sledding in Quebec and photographed polar bears in Manitoba. Then she heard that a black woman had never made it to the North Pole. "I said, `What's wrong with this picture?'" she said. "So I sort of rolled into this, shall we say."
The expedition