Ann Bancroft
Ann Bancroft
Ann Bancroftis an American author, teacher, and adventurer. She was the first woman to successfully finish a number of arduous expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctic. She was inducted as honorary member of the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1995...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionExplorer
Date of Birth29 September 1955
CountryUnited States of America
breath feeling love running
I love that place where you get in running where you're just never out of breath and you just feel like you could go forever. I love that. I love feeling strong.
activity building peak
You know, if I look at this activity as my whole career, this is my peak moment. I've been building for this my whole career.
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I think that women on expeditions often get sucked into giving 150 percent of themselves because they feel they have to prove themselves physically equal to men. We get ourselves into trouble and burn out.
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I love weights, but it's too far to get to the gym. So I make the farm my gym: I split wood and haul tires and do work on the farm, and that's sort of my weight training portion.
needs turned volume women
The voices of women need to be heard. The volume needs to be turned up.
age
My first expedition was at about the age of eight.
dreams full order pocket
I have a whole, you know, pocket full of dreams I want to achieve. I don't know in which order they're going to fall.
growing outdoors raised rural setting
Growing up in a rural setting in Minnesota, I was raised with the outdoors and a sense of adventure.
family risk
Everyone in my family is a risk taker in his or her own way.
certain critics fear gave point reach realize
Film critics said I gave a voice to the fear we all have: that we'll reach a certain point in our lives, look around and realize that all the things we said we'd do and become will never come to be - and that we're ordinary.
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For me, the greatest obstacles are never on the ice itself. That's the area I excel in. That's where my passion is. I think we all strive to push ourselves, to overcome our struggles. And when we do, we get to know ourselves better.
aware facing human links matter needs people
Water links us all as human beings. Everyone needs water, and we all have challenges about it, no matter where we live. Yet even in the U.S., people aren't aware of problems facing water.
arctic committed education sharing stories
This journey is not over. Our education initiatives have so much momentum, and we're committed to sharing even more stories from the Arctic when we return.
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The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they're too old to do it.