The Expedition: Two Parents Risk Life and Family in an Extraordinary Quest to the South Pole

In 2014, Chris and her husband Marty became the first American couple to ski to the South Pole unsupported, unassisted, and unguided; covering a distance of 570 miles in 48 days while pulling 220-pound sleds. At midlife, they found themselves weighing the responsibility of parenthood against the possibility of one more grand adventure, before their aging bodies and the warming continent of Antarctica further degraded. After three years of intense planning and training, including meticulous preparations for the care of their twelve-year-old son, they were ready.

Nominated for the 2020 William Mills Prize for Non-Fiction Polar Books.