Polar explorers Hilde Fålun Strøm and Sunniva Sorby spent a year and a half on Bamsebu in the Norwegian arctic, self-isolating and becoming the first women to overwinter in the arctic without men.
Polar explorers Hilde and Sunniva spent a year and a half on Bamsebu in the Norwegian arctic, self-isolating and becoming the first women to overwinter in the arctic without men.
"We get asked a lot how we coped," Sunniva said. "Did we ever fight? The answer is yes, we fought. The thing that I'm very proud of [is] we did, we talked it out. The pandemic also limited Arctic travel for scientists held in Sydney that became citizen scientists collecting data for NASA and polar researchers.
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