Helen Thayer - Citizendia

Born in New Zealand, Helen Thayer , at the age of 50, is the first woman to solo to the magnetic North Pole. New Zealand is an Island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses (the North Island and the South Island The Earth's North Magnetic Pole is the wandering point on the Earth's surface at which the Earth's magnetic field points vertically downwards (i

She has done the following:

Traveled alone to the magnetic North Pole. The Earth's North Magnetic Pole is the wandering point on the Earth's surface at which the Earth's magnetic field points vertically downwards (i And accompanied only by her dog Charlie that saved her life when one of polar bears tried to attack her.
Walked across the Sahara Desert, 2,400 miles
Walked across the Mongolian Gobi Desert, 1,500 miles
Kayaked two remote Amazon Rivers and photographed 3 species unknown to science, traveling 1,200 miles
Honored by the White House and National Geographic
Named “One of the Great Explorers of the 20th Century” by National Geographic Society & NPR
Best selling author
- Polar Dream: The First Solo Expedition by a Woman and Her Dog to the Magnetic North Pole
- Three Among the Wolves: A year of Friendship with Wolves in the Wild
- Trekking the Gobi: Desert of Dreams and Despair
An internationally acclaimed motivational speaker
World wide explorer
Represented 3 countries in international track and field
National luge champion
In 2007, Thayer and her husband, Bill, hope to travel in mainland China into Sichuan and Tibet to study pandas. The Sahara (الصحراء الكبرى aṣ-ṣaḥrā´ al-kubra, "The Great Desert" is the world's largest hot Desert and the world's second largest In Biology, a species is one of the basic units of Biological classification and a Taxonomic rank. See also Executive Office of the President of the United States The White House, formerly known as the Executive Mansion, is the Official residence Overview The NGS's historical mission is "to increase and diffuse geographic knowledge while promoting the conservation of the world's cultural historical and natural Overview The NGS's historical mission is "to increase and diffuse geographic knowledge while promoting the conservation of the world's cultural historical and natural A motivational speaker is a professional speaker who makes speeches intending to lift up and motivate their audiences A luge is a small one- or two-person Sled on which one sleds supine (face up and feet-first ( Postal map spelling: Szechwan and Szechuan) is a province in western China with its capital in Chengdu. Definitions of Tibet See also Definitions of Tibet Name In English The English word Tibet, like the word for Tibet in most European

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