World-Renowned Explorer Pam Flowers to Visit Brownell and Parcells Students

On Monday, November 5th, record-breaking arctic explorer and author, Pam Flowers, will share slides and stories from her solo 2,500 mile expedition across the Arctic from Barrow, Alaska to Repulse Bay, Canada to Brownell and Parcells students. In 1996 she became the 14th recipient of the “Gold Medal from the Society of Woman Geographers,” following in the footsteps of Amelia Earhart, Margaret Mead, and Jane Goodall.

Flowers has participated in nine Arctic expeditions, seven by dog team and two by snow machine. She has completed the 1049 mile Iditarod Sled Dog Race, reached the Magnetic North Pole three times, traveled north over the frozen Arctic Ocean farther north than any other solo woman and completed the longest solo dog sled journey on record by a woman. 

The presentation chronicles the perils and joys of one of her expeditions.  Students will hear about intense blizzards that kept her stranded for days, melting pack ice literally breaking up beneath her and the team, terrifying run-in with polar bears, dog mushing and more…

In addition, the program components emphasize:

• Arctic geography,
• Native culture,
• life lessons focusing on goal setting, the need to prepare, persevering when things go wrong even when it’s not your fault,
• anecdotes about the dogs that explains team work, and manners and courtesy (even dogs need manners to get along).

For more information, her website is:  www.pamflowers.com.  A link to her biography is also on the Brownell and Parcells library web page.