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Well, you know how crazy middle-aged women get...

Well, you know how crazy middle-aged women get...

Well, they've gotta do something to counteract the hot flashes.

I just knew there would be a Norwegian involved.

There was a crazy Finnish woman who did shiat like this. Time and time again she'd try even though she'd need to get rescued and have toes/fingers/whatever amputated. I think last year or the year before she went out for the last time. Don't think they ever found her.

I love the smell of a sexist headline in the morning. Smells like...Fark.

Amen, lostcat. If these women had wangs nobody would think twice about it. They've already crossed Antartica; I lay money on the fact that they're more in shape and ready to go than most men. Hot flashes, mid-life crises, and ego have nothing to do with this. Read their website (http://www.bancroftarnesenexplore.com)-- it's pretty inspiring.

That being said, this IS Fark.

I've seen this one. They kill their husbands, lose their money to Brad Pitt, and then drive off a cliff together.

The summer of 1974 was brutally hot in New York and I had kept thinking about how nice and icy it must be at the North Pole and then I thought: wait a second, why not go? You know, like in cartoons where they just hang "Gone to the North Pole" on their doorknobs and just take off.

So, I spent a couple of weeks preparing for the trip, getting a hatchet, a huge backpack, maps, knives, sleeping bag, lures, and a three month supply of bannock, a versatile high protein paste that can me made into flatbread, biscuits, or cereal.

I had decided to hitchhike so one day I just walked out to Houston Street, weighted down with seventy pounds of gear, and stuck out my thumb. "Going north?" I asked the driver, as I struggled into his station wagon. After I got out of New York, most of the rides were trucks until I reached the Hudson Bay and began to hitch in small mail planes. The pilots were usually guys who had gone to Canada to avoid the draft or else embittered Vietnam vets who never wanted to go home again. Either way, they always wanted to show off a few of their stunts. We'd go swooping low along the rivers, doing loop de loops and "Baby Hughies." They'd drop me off at an air strip, "There'll be another plane by here coupla' weeks. See ya! Good luck!

I never did make it all the way to the geographic pole. It turned out to be a restricted area and no one was allowed to fly in, or even over, it. I did get within a few miles of the magnetic pole though, so it wasn't really that disappointing.

I entertained myself in the evenings cooking, smoking, or watching the blazing light of the huge Canadian sunsets as they turned the lake into fire. Later I lay on my back looking up at the northern lights and imaging there had been a nuclear holocaust and that I was the only human being left in all of North America and what would I do then? And then when these lights went out, I stretched out on the ground, watching the stars as they turned around on their enormous silent wheels.

I finally decided to turn back because of my hatchet. I had been chopping some wood and the hatchet flew out of my hand on the upswing. And I did what you should never do when this happens: I looked up to see where it had gone. It came down WWWWFFFFF!! just missing my head and I thought: My God! I could be walking around here with a hatchet in embedded in my skull and I'm ten miles from the airstrip and nobody in the whole world knows I'm here.

If the story is about women, why do they have a picture of two men?

At least they'll have the sense to stop and ask for directions if they get lost.

The pair will live largely on fruits and nuts....

Perfect example of you are what you eat....

This thread will be worth checking out later today. So many jokes it is hard to know where to start.

Also:

They'll get an airdrop of food at the pole....

Weak.

Leaving aside the obvious jokes for a moment why would anyone care? It's no more significant than the 100# Japanese that win the hot dog eating contests. And this applies to anyone who attempts a ridiculous stunt like rowing across an ocean.

can someone say "lesbians?"

/going to hell i know, i know..one ticket por favor.

Stop rescuing these "explorers" and extreme sportsters, that should thin the ranks a little. I wonder if they'd be attempting it if they knew they wouldn't be rescued. Is the impending rescue on their dime?

Two million school children will be following their trek online...and what happens the day they don't check in..than its two days, I bet this whole thing was sponsored by the school psychologists union.

Like if they had wieners, anyone wd be sayin' it.

/seen more dumb men in my day-darwin at his best!

Hopefully these are the type of women who are pioneers and ready to forage new frontiers and all that...



...instead of the type who think that skis have OnStar. :)

lostcat

I love the smell of a sexist headline in the morning. Smells like...Fark.

I think you'll find the smell is omnipresent in certain cultures.

Cue made-for-TV-movie in 3... 2... 1...

Eh, this is boring. With all the high tech gear trekking in the arctic is no longer as tough as the famous explorers of old. If they get in trouble, pull out the sat phone and call for backup. In the past you had to hole up for the return of the whaling ships and pray you didnt die before then.

Bah Everyone is doing it these days

Entire family ski to south pole

http://www.bbc.co.uk/insideout/northeast/series7/south_pole.shtml

it's so cute when girls try to do stuff, but they really should stick to sports theyre good at, like foxy-boxing and double dutch.

"No dogs, no men, and one .44 Magnum revolver."

Without trying to be too PC, would they ever describe an all-men's expedition as "no dogs, no women, and one .44 Magnum revolver?"

And they'd better be pretty good with that revolver if a polar bear attacks. Polar bears are pretty damn good hunters, and one shot may be all these two get.

hillary

Another admirer of Laurie Anderson in the haus? :) Do you know if she's still busy in the limelight these days? I kind of lost track of her after researching her early works onto the 1980s.

/Wrote a paper on her for a contemporary art theory course in first year.
//Hated that class.

headline made me laugh...

/heh

I"m pretty sexist, but the headline still made me do a double take.

I saw her in concert years back on The Nerve Bible tour. Then she did a show based on Moby Dick. She has a web site out there somewhere.

TenderBranson is the winner.

Eh, this is boring. With all the high tech gear trekking in the arctic is no longer as tough as the famous explorers of old. If they get in trouble, pull out the sat phone and call for backup. In the past you had to hole up for the return of the whaling ships and pray you didnt die before then.

Postal Penguin regardless it is going to be b*tt cold and even if they call for help it might take a week if the weather is bad.

I have met Ann Bancroft while I worked at an outdoor adventure company. A very talented lady who has been a number of these treks. I'd like to see all the people making smart comments to sleep in a tent when it is -60 actual temperature. You think you've got a bad case of blue b@lls now you can't imagine what they'd be like at that temp.

Heh... I don't understand why it's at all surprising to see a sexist headline on Fark. I mean, we have people who are all for nuking most countries on the planet, why not be sexist too? If you're going to be a prick, then you might as well go all the way, so the ramblings are easier for everyone else to ignore.

"High tech dry suits"
Drysuits are hardly high tech.

/DUI CLX 450

ScreamingInDigital wins.