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Speaker 1: Monetizabeth has no illusions about what lies ahead. Over the

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Speaker 1: seven weeks she'll travel so low seven hundred miles to

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Speaker 1: the South Pole on cross country skis.

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Speaker 2: It's guaranteed that things will go wrong.

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Speaker 1: She will, after all, be in an environment not hospitable

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Speaker 1: to humans, dragging two hundred and fifty pounds of gear

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Speaker 1: and food and navigating sometimes white out conditions. Isabeth is

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Speaker 1: no stranger to adventurous expeditions. She leads them professionally, but

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Speaker 1: confesses to being scared all the same.

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Speaker 2: Being afraid of it wasn't enough of a reason not to

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Speaker 2: do it, because I could feel like, deep down I

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Speaker 2: really really wanted to take on this challenge and see

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Speaker 2: if I could do it well.

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Speaker 1: I thought the hardest part might be the nearly two

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Speaker 1: months of total isolation.

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Speaker 3: But not so, says Isabeth.

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Speaker 2: There's so many benefits. It's like I've been a monk

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Speaker 2: in a cave meditating that I really come out with

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Speaker 2: a sort of mental clarity that I've not been able

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Speaker 2: to achieve in any other situation in my life.

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Speaker 3: And what else awaits our intrepid adventurer. At the end

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Speaker 3: of it all, probably a really long nap. End'll bule wbsy,

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Speaker 3: Boston's news radio