At ages 45 and 47, two former schoolteachers undertook an extraordinary journey. They set out to become the first women to cross the continent of Antarctica on foot.

To succeed, American Ann Bancroft and Norwegian Liv Arnesen would have to walk, ski, and ski-sail for nearly three months in temperatures as cold as -35°F, towing their 250-pound supply sledges across almost two thousand miles of crevasse-ridden ice.

And they would have to complete the journey before the harsh Antarctic winter set in and 24 hours of daylight became 24 hours of impenetrable darkness.

Though even modern technology might not enable rescue should they need it, satellite phones and a laptop would ensure that Ann and Liv would complete an important part of their mission: more than three million children from sixty-five countries were connected to the expedition by website transmissions and satellite phone calls. These children learned volumes about geography, science — and the power of dreams.

Chronicling the dramatic details of this historic expedition for the first time, No Horizon Is So Far explores what drove Ann and Liv across the ice and ultimately into hearts and history books around the world.

It traces the birth of their dream as girls half a globe apart, their tenacious work to assemble the necessary money and gear, and their brutally taxing trek from the Norwegian sector to the American base at McMurdo Bay.

An incredible true-life adventure of danger, suspense, and endurance, No Horizon Is So Far unforgettably celebrates two modern-day heroes.

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336 pages
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