Article: Trip across Antarctica is trip across dreamland; Bancroft and Arnesen can still capture the imaginations of adoring supporters.(VARIETY)

Article: Bancroft, Arnesen reach pole; Food was on the explorers' ...
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  January 17, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... Antarctic explorers Ann Bancroft and Liv Arnesen reached the South Pole on Tuesday morning ... s the coffee?" Bancroft and Arnesen reached the South Pole research station ... had skied into the South Pole before: Bancroft did so with a four ...

Article: Antarctic explorers wish for the gift of wind; Ann ...
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  December 23, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... gift of the wind," Bancroft said by satellite ... 530 miles from the South Pole. "Put that in my ... another day for us," Bancroft said. "It's actually ... for Christmas." Bancroft, 45, skied to the South Pole with three other ...

Article: Bancroft and Arneson could reach South Pole ...
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  January 16, 2001 ;     617 words ... ... Antarctic explorers Ann Bancroft and Liv Arnesen to within 32 miles of the South Pole, which - wind willing ... Minneapolis time today. Bancroft, 45, from Scandia, Minn ... we really imagined," Bancroft said in a satellite telephone ...

Article: Women who trekked to South Pole focus on of inner ...
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  August 10, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... women who trekked to the South Pole eight years ago tell ... Anne Dal Vera to tell Bancroft she couldn't finish ... must give it up. For Bancroft, Antarctica is synonymous ... bittersweet victories. Her South Pole expeditions have twice ... this year, attained Bancroft's earlier hope ...

Article: Two Women Ski to South Pole
AP Online;  January 16, 2001 ;     594 words ... ... Explorers Ann Bancroft and Liv Arnesen ... Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station after 64 ... and unaided to the South Pole -- a 50-day journey. Bancroft was the first woman ... North Pole and the South Pole. Throughout the ...

Article: Teachers Head for the South Pole
AP Online;  February 15, 2000 ;     522 words ... ... Teachers Head for the South Pole OSLO, Norway (AP) -- Headed for the South Pole, teachers Liv Arnesen and Ann Bancroft will be far from their ... and unaided to the South Pole after a 50-day trek. Bancroft, 43, was the first ...

Article: Women make it to South Pole.
The Birmingham Post (England);  January 17, 2001 ;     421 words ... ... explorers reached the South Pole yesterday after 64 ... Antarctica. American Ann Bancroft and Norwegian Liv Arnesen ... and unaided to the South Pole - a 50-day journey. Bancroft was the first woman ... North Pole and the South Pole.