In a two year period, Bernice Notenboom has been on four successful polar expeditions to the ends of the world – to the three poles (North, South and the Cold Pole in Siberia, the coldest inhabited place on the planet), and across the fast-shrinking icecap of Greenland. On January 12 2008, she became the first Dutch woman to reach the South Pole. In May 2009 she climbed Mt. Everest with her partner, Walter. Bernice Notenboom is a journalist for the leading Dutch newspaper and a regular on the speaker circuits. Poles Apart is her first book.
More information about Bernice Notenboom can be found on her website: Arctic Alert.
Bernice’s memoir offers the rarest of accounts, a woman’s perspective on polar travel. As well as communicating the urgency of climate change and its consequences, Bernice’s moving story also portrays the interior, emotional journey she undertook, which forced her to confront herself on every level –mental, physical and emotional.
An astounding true story of a woman’s encounter with the poles, and her struggles on the ice as she comes to grips with both love and a harsh, vanishing landscape.
