The Ice Beneath My Feet

by Diana Patterson | Biographies & Memoirs | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0733324231 Global Overview for this book
Registered by wombles of Caboolture, Queensland Australia on 2/27/2021
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Journal Entry 1 by wombles from Caboolture, Queensland Australia on Saturday, February 27, 2021
Antarctica is windy and achingly cold, incredibly isolated and inhospitable - yet its overwhelming stark white beauty speaks to our imagination.

Bright and passionate, Diana Patterson was searching for her path in life when she was bitten by the Antarctic bug in her late twenties. She nursed her secret ambition and with dogged determination set her sights on becoming station leader at the Australian base Mawson-a lofty aspiration, considering this was most definitely a bloke's world. Being knocked back four times didn't deter her-she never gave up her dream, and at the age of 38 became the first woman in charge of this small, mostly male community of glaciologists, physicists, biologists and tradies, in each other's pockets 24/7, thousands of miles from the comforts of home.

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